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chemo

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkiːməʊ//
  • United States//ˈkimoʊ//

To treat with chemotherapy.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of chemotherapyinformalClipping of chemotherapy.

    I couldn’t control my bowels. “You just need to recover from chemo,” I was told.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo treat with chemotherapy.

    We chemoed the tumor in the leg down by 92 percent, and the fourteen in her lungs vanished.

Forms

plural
chemos
past tense
chemoed
past participle
chemoed
present participle
chemoing
third person singular
chemos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).