exoculate means To deprive of eyes; blind. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
EXOCULATE — [Verb] To deprive of eyes; to blind, especially by gouging them out. From Latin exoculātus, perfect passive participle of exoculō ("to remove the eyes"), from ex- ("out") + oculus ("eye"). Unlike "blind"—a broad, often passive condition of sightlessness—or "hoodwink"—a term of deceit where blindness is metaphorical, "exoculate" is an act of definitive, corporeal theft. It is the cold precision of the torturer’s thumb, the sudden, wet hollow in a saint’s icon, the irrevocable vacancy left where a world was once reflected—the ultimate severance not just of sight, but of witness.
verb
- To deprive of eyes; blind.