Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove hair from (the body).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip of hair; remove the hair from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strip of hair; to husk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove
hair from the body.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove body hair
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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True, but even men these days are feeling compelled to depilate in an effort to look more Taylor Lautner than Robin Williams.
Leslie Goldman: Do Women Have to Be Hairless to Be Sexy? 2010
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True, but even men these days are feeling compelled to depilate in an effort to look more Taylor Lautner than Robin Williams.
Leslie Goldman: Do Women Have to Be Hairless to Be Sexy? Leslie Goldman 2010
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True, but even men these days are feeling compelled to depilate in an effort to look more Taylor Lautner than Robin Williams.
Leslie Goldman: Do Women Have to Be Hairless to Be Sexy? 2010
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Imagine not having to tweeze, wax, depilate or shave as often as you do.
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Do you depilate with the same creme you use for your beard?
"I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone who ever read her blog would want to meet her in person let alone marry her..." Ann Althouse 2009
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You could shave or depilate the hair, pull the teeth, get the implant out and he might eventually come to look something like he did before, but the hair and teeth are the easy part; balancing the hormones would take weeks or months.
Archive 2009-07-01 Steve Perry 2009
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I wondered who would dress my hair and depilate me tomorrow: what should I wear?
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I wondered who would dress my hair and depilate me tomorrow: what should I wear?
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I wondered who would dress my hair and depilate me tomorrow: what should I wear?
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Athenians used to depilate, you know, while the Spartans grew long hair which they combed before going into before battle.
January running, feminine atheletes and getting in the game Elizabeth McClung 2007
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