WordNet: operate, operate on

perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"

• domain: topic medicine, practice of medicine

• hypernym care for, treat

• hyponym desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex

• hyponym face-lift, lift

• hyponym trephine

• hyponym venesect

operate

• (englanti) operation (derivationally related)

• (englanti) operative (derivationally related)
• (suomi) operoida (synonyymi)

operate on

• (suomi) leikata (synonyymi)