Acupunctuate

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To pierce with a needle; to treat with acupuncture. rare

    "In the course of these months she was bled, leeched, acupunctuated, […]."

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"In the course of these months she was bled, leeched, acupunctuated, […]."

Etymology

From Latin acus (“needle”) + punctuate.

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