Trepan

//tɹɪˈpæn//

Synonyms for "trepan" (41 found)

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Related word relations

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Translations

11 translations across 7 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • пробивам verb (to create a large hole)

French

1 entries
  • trépan noun (tool to bore)

Galician

1 entries
  • trepanar verb (to use a trepan)

German

1 entries
  • trepanieren verb (to use a trepan)

Italian

3 entries
  • perforatrice noun (tool to bore)
  • trapano noun (tool to bore)
  • trivella noun (tool to bore)

Spanish

2 entries
  • trepanar verb (to create a large hole)
  • trepanar verb (to use a trepan)

Swedish

2 entries
  • trepan noun (tool to bore)
  • trepanera verb (to use a trepan)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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As for all other Pretences, they are nothing but Death and Damnation, dreſſed up in Fair VVords and Falſe Shevvs; nothing but Ginns, and Snares, and Trepans for Souls; Contrived by the Devil, and Managed by ſuch as the Devil ſets on VVork.

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Julian was hastily revolving whether they ought, in prudence, to accept this man's invitation, aware, by experience, how many trepans, as they were then termed, were used betwixt two contending factions, […]

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[O]ld associates who had once thought him [Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston] a man of dauntless courage and spotless honour, […] now pronounced that he was at best a meanspirited coward, and hinted their suspicions that he had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.

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And haſt thou trepan'd me into a Tabernacle of the Godly? Is this Pious Boarding-houſe a place for me, thou vvicked Varlet?

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