trepan
verb /trɪˈpæn/
/trɪˈpæn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they trepan | /trɪˈpæn/ /trɪˈpæn/ |
| he / she / it trepans | /trɪˈpænz/ /trɪˈpænz/ |
| past simple trepanned | /trɪˈpænd/ /trɪˈpænd/ |
| past participle trepanned | /trɪˈpænd/ /trɪˈpænd/ |
| -ing form trepanning | /trɪˈpænɪŋ/ /trɪˈpænɪŋ/ |
- trepan somebody/something (especially in the past) to make a hole in somebody’s skull with a special instrument, for medical reasonsWord Originlate Middle English: the noun via medieval Latin from Greek trupanon, from trupan ‘to bore’, from trupē ‘hole’; the verb from Old French trepaner.