Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove the claws from.
- transitive verb To strip of power, potency, or strength; make harmless or less threatening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to remove the claws from, -- used especially with a cat as an object.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To surgically
remove theclaws from. - verb figuratively To make
harmless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove the claws from
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Examples
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BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 9 (UPI) -- Engineers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel say they have developed a way to "declaw" nuclear fuel, ensuring only peaceful plutonium use.
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BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 9 (UPI) -- Engineers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel say they have developed a way to "declaw" nuclear fuel, ensuring only peaceful plutonium use.
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Instead they make the case that the only way to stop the disproportionately high Black on Black gun violence and homicide rate is to 'declaw' Black males like you and I, removing this threatening tool from our possession.
Booker Rising 2009
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Expect the new Republican majority to try to destroy the forty year old Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, to defund, and declaw the EPA.
Larry Beinhart: Sundance: Rage, Outrage, and a Vision Larry Beinhart 2011
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Expect the new Republican majority to try to destroy the forty year old Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, to defund, and declaw the EPA.
Larry Beinhart: Sundance: Rage, Outrage, and a Vision Larry Beinhart 2011
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People who are anti-declawing generally are not all that educated on the actual facts, because the anti-declaw community is incredibly vocal compared to the rest of us.
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Yeah, after $20K of damage to furniture and getting close to divorce (and spending $400/mt on counseling), HER cats finally got declawed (mine was a total declaw from 10 weeks old).
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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He was from a species of the creep family, a diagnostician told me as a favor, later, after I was forced to declaw him.
He Was Slim And His Eyes Were Wrong Bobbi Lurie 2011
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Expect the new Republican majority to try to destroy the forty year old Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, to defund, and declaw the EPA.
Larry Beinhart: Sundance: Rage, Outrage, and a Vision Larry Beinhart 2011
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Expect the new Republican majority to try to destroy the forty year old Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, to defund, and declaw the EPA.
Larry Beinhart: Sundance: Rage, Outrage, and a Vision Larry Beinhart 2011
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