depilate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin depilo, depilatus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛpɪleɪt/
Verb
depilate (third-person singular simple present depilates, present participle depilating, simple past and past participle depilated)
- To remove hair from the body.
- 1999, Franco Mormando, The Preacher’s Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 38:
- In Siena, the donkey upon which Bernardino had traveled so many miles was literally and thoroughly depilated in the mad rush for miracle-working relics.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
to remove hair from the body
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Italian
Verb
depilate
- inflection of depilare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
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