declawv.
/ˌdiːˈklɔː/, U.S. /ˌdiˈklɔ/ 1. transitive. To clip or remove the claws of (an animal); (in later use) spec. to amputate the ends of the toes of (a domestic cat or other animal) to achieve permanent removal of the claws.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > cut off tail, ears, or other bits
dockc1386
bobtail1577
dishorn1603
crop1607
strunt1828
de-tail1837
stern1858
decaudate1864
tail1886
dehorn1888
declaw1901
poll1907
defang1912
1901 W. Austral. Sunday Times 31 Mar. 1/5 My wife wants to ‘declaw’ our favorable cat by cutting her claws and thus save her carpets.
1936 N. Caldwell Fangs of Sea (1937) xi. 200 I declawed another crab.
1990 UPI Newswire (Nexis) 15 Oct. The cougars..cannot be released to the wild because both have been declawed and were raised in captivity.
2013 R. Freedman Beg vi. 45 Had I allowed simple common sense to pervade my teenage brain, I would've known that declawing a cat is cruel and barbaric.
2. transitive. figurative. To deprive (a person or thing) of force or power; to render harmless or ineffectual. Cf. defang v. 2.
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society > authority > lack of power > deprive of power [verb (transitive)] > reduce the power of
weaken1530
to shorten the arm or hand of1535
weaken1568
emasculate1608
to pare the claws of1884
defang1919
declaw1940
the world > action or operation > safety > make safe or secure [verb (transitive)] > make safe or not dangerous > make harmless
unarm1569
to file (one's) teeth1599
cicurate1606
disenvenoma1711
scotch1726
defang1919
neutralize1937
sterilize1939
declaw1940
recuperate1967
1940 L. Sullivan Dead Hand of Bureaucracy ii. 31 President Roosevelt's reorganization proposals..were revised in the House, ‘de-clawed’ in the Senate, and enacted early in 1939.
1999 Foreign Affairs (Nexis) Nov. 36 The voluntary disarmament of the JKLF ended the grassroots revolt; once the azadi movement was effectively declawed, popular enthusiasm for the rebellion withered.
2019 M. Winter All Politics is Local (e-book ed.) Gradually declawing unions was an integral part of the plan.
Derivatives
deˈclawed adj.
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society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > deprived of power
gelded1531
depotentiated1886
declawed1945
the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or not dangerous > safe or harmless
unshathyOE
unbalefulOE
unscathefulc1175
unscathelya1400
unscathing1437
unnoyingc1440
unshendingc1450
unnoyous1483
harmless1533
unharmful1538
unhurtful1549
dintless1558
white1567
offenceless1581
inoffensive1598
unhurting1613
illaesive1628
innocuous1631
unmalignant1633
innoxious1638
inobnoxious1659
unvenomous1659
innocent1662
unafflictinga1711
unmolesting1767
fangless1790
unharming1796
woundless1796
uninjurious1809
uninjuring1820
unmischievous1821
scarless1823
boltless1832
inoffending1853
defanged1920
non-injury1926
anodyne1933
declawed1945
1945 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 3 Sept. 1/5 (heading) De-clawed ‘Tiger of Malaya’ gives up to Wainwright.
1987 D. Morris Catlore (1988) 63 A declawed cat is a maimed cat.
2016 Irish Times (Nexis) 16 Dec. 14 The declawed proposal likely to pass the Swiss parliament today has dispensed with the 2014 initiative's core demand.
deˈclawing n.
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society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > loss or deprivation of power or authority
depotentiation1882
rollback1953
declawing2011
the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or lack of risk or harm > process of rendering harmless
neutralization1886
recuperation1967
declawing2011
1919 Punch 22 Jan. 65/3 The secretary insists on adding a fifteenth point..relating to the Declawing of Yellow Cats.
1987 Univ. of Mass. Boston Yearbk. 14 133/1 I would watch surgeries being performed—declawings, neuterings, ear and tail croppings—you name it, those surgeons did it all.
2011 Nat. Jrnl. Daily AM (Nexis) 18 Dec. The declawing of committees and their chiefs, once seen as the most powerful men and women on Capitol Hill, is a direct result of the deadline-busting approach to lawmaking that has dominated this Congress.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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