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Definition of Depilate
1. Verb. Remove body hair. "They depilate their hair "; "Epilate her legs"
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Derivative terms: Depilation, Depilator, Depilatory
Definition of Depilate
1. v. t. To strip of hair; to husk.
Definition of Depilate
1. Verb. To remove hair from the body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Depilate
1. to remove hair from [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Medical Definition of Depilate
1. To remove hair by any means. Compare: epilate. Origin: L. De-pilo, pp. -atus, to deprive of hair, fr. De-neg. + pilo, to grow hair (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depilate
Literary usage of Depilate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1906)
"In this way it is possible to make the ten or twelve exposures necessary to
depilate the entire scalp without any time-interval between them. ..."
2. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"depiction in words, verbal sketch. depilate ... scrape scales or hair from, scale,
depilate. depleted ros(vi.): be all gone, used up, finished, depleted, ..."
3. Elementary Manual of Regional Topographical Dermatology by Raimond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud, Charles Frederic Marshall (1906)
"Sometimes it is necessary to depilate the entire head, and in this case the parts
treated are covered with discs of lead, to avoid any region receiving a ..."
4. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"... sf chalk prepared to depilate skin*. (Fig.\ plot; scheme, Voas n'avez pas bien
médite" votre plan, you have not meditated that scheme well. ..."
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