emarginates

Verb

emarginate (third-person singular simple present emarginates, present participle emarginating, simple past and past participle emarginated)

1. (transitive) To take away the margin of.
   • The radius resembles that of Nesodon in form, but is proportionately shorter and stouter; the distal end is especially massive and the scaphoid facet emarginates the dorsal border more deeply and in a more conspicuous way.1909, William John Sinclair, Mammalia of the Santa Cruz Beds: Typotheria. I., page 156
2. (intransitive) To lose the margin.
   • The palate in Leptictis emarginates between M's.1986, Michael J. Novacek, The Skull of Leptictid Insectivorans and the Higher-level Classification of Eutherian Mammals, page 26
3. To marginalize.
   • Hegel ignores, represses, and emarginates these factors in order to found his logic on a dialectic conceived as the appropriation of the other, rather than a becoming other (Anderswerden).1992, Robert C. Holub, Crossing Borders, page 44

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