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to depilate

to depilate

9.2
To remove hair from the body using chemicals or tools
  • verb
  • /ˈdɛpɪˌleɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : depilar
  • Many people choose to depilate their underarms as part of their regular grooming routine.

Examples

  • The "moonstruck" ones, they don't depilate his legs.

  • She had had them depilated, and tiny holders for works of living art implanted.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I watched with interest as I grew into a world where nice girls depilate.

    Blog text (10)
  • A laser depilated what remained of his body.

  • Depilated, he wore hair and eyebrow tattoos in a formal style popular on Vul maybe ten years ago.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The ruin that these depilated white men wreak, the death they carry with them and bring so quickly to the unsuspecting, has been both modernized and ratcheted up.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Convicts were routinely depilated for hygienic reasons, and work at the Near Space Refueling Depot, for which the penal colony supplied labor, made you either strong or dead.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • She decided to depilate her legs before the summer vacation to feel more comfortable in her swimsuit.

  • The new product promises to depilate unwanted hair quickly and painlessly.

Synonyms

to epilate
vsto depilate
9.9

Remove hair by pulling it out from the roots

uses chemical or other mechanical methods instead of pulling hair from roots

Antonyms

39 2.0

Become joined together over time, as body tissue or tree trunks

How Permanent

to laser
  • Specialized
8 4.4
to wax
62 3.8
to depilate
  • Specialized
9.2
to shave
467 1.0
to trim
95 2.6

Surface Forms

depilate infinitive
depilated past
depilated past participle
depilating present participle
depilates third person singular

Morphology

depilate = de + pil + ate

Although analyzable into de- (remove) + pil- (hair) + -ate, the root 'pil' is not a standalone, productive English word, so learners cannot reliably infer the meaning from familiar English morphemes.

Etymology

Depilate comes from Latin parts de- meaning 'away' and pilus meaning 'hair'. So to depilate is to take 'hair' away from the body, which is why it means removing body hair.