trepan

trepan is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive/intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
2. noun. A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
3. transitive/intransitive verb. To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
4. noun. A snare; a trapan.
5. noun. a deceiver; a cheat.
6. transitive verb. To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
7. noun. a drill for cutting circular holes around a center
8. noun. a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull

   Synonyms: trephine

9. verb. cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery

Synonyms

trephine

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in trepan:

arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent, parten, pretan, pterna

Common word forms

trepans, trepanize, trepanned, trepanner, trepanning

Words from these letters

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