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depilate

UK/ˈdɛpɪleɪt/

depilate verb: to remove all hair from skin so as to make it smooth.

Verb

depilate (third-person singular simple present depilates, present participle depilating, simple past and past participle depilated)

  1. To remove all hair from skin so as to make it smooth.
    • 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.1999, Franco Mormando, The Preacher’s Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 38
    Synonyms:
    hair

depilate meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

depilate in Tamil

மயிர்நீக்கு

depilate in Urdu

بال صاف کرنا

depilate in Kannada

ಕೂದಲು ಕಳೆ, ಕೇಶ ತೆಗೆ

Synonyms of depilate

Forms of depilate

third-person singular presentdepilates
present participledepilating
past participledepilated
pastdepilated

Origin of depilate

First attested in 1575; borrowed from Latin dēpilātus, perfect passive participle of dēpilō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Words formed from depilate

Questions about depilate

What does depilate mean?
Depilate means to remove all hair from skin so as to make it smooth.
What is depilate in Tamil?
Depilate in Tamil is மயிர்நீக்கு. See Depilate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is depilate?
Depilate is a verb.
How do you pronounce depilate?
Depilate is pronounced /ˈdɛpɪleɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of depilate?
The past tense of depilate is depilated.

Words near depilate in the dictionary

  1. depigmented
  2. depigmenting
  3. depigments
  4. depilant
  5. depilants
  6. depilate
  7. depilated
  8. depilates
  9. depilating
  10. depilation
  11. depilations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depilate (page history and authors); depilate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); depilate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); depilate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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