1. trepan somebody/something (especially in the past) to make a hole in somebody’s skull with a special instrument, for medical reasons
   Word Originlate Middle English: the noun via medieval Latin from Greek trupanon, from trupan ‘to bore’, from trupÄ“ ‘hole’; the verb from Old French trepaner.

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