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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
depilate .
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Examples
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I was left bewildered and asserted myself by depilating, as you do.
Career choices and hairy legs ailbhe 2005
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You know the type: diagrams that begin with the shaggy ape and his ground-grazing knuckles, moving on through slowly straightening and depilating hominids, until we reach the clean-shaven Caucasian nudist proudly clutching the haft of his stone axe or spear.
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When considerable cicatricial tissue is present, due to the action of depilating vesicants or other chemicals, sloughing of tissue is very apt to follow deep cauterization, if one is not careful to keep the punctures at least one-half inch apart when three are made.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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For instance, the application of an active and depilating vesicant upon a large area on the gluteal or crural region, in a case where the practitioner "guesses" the condition to be one of "hip lameness," constitutes an exposition of gross ignorance, and at once stamps the perpetrator as a crude bungler without scientific insight whose works are no credit to his profession.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The use of arsenical compounds is objectionable, but it undoubtedly increases the depilating action of the compounds.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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Increasing numbers of people have raised exhausted by waxing, shaving your face and as well, depilating when it comes to stopping scalp around the higher lips, control and so feet, and bushy brows.
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More and more people have become tired of waxing, shaving for men and then depilating when it comes to deleting locks within the higher mouth area, fretting hand and in addition your butt, and/or bushy eyebrows.
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It is a profoundly unsettling orbit around the bodily functions and desires of 18-year-old Helen Memel, who revels in her own lack of hygiene and narrates the book from her hospital bed, following a mishap depilating an intimate area.
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But it is the pulp that can bring you the true fairy's magical divine potion that could actually help you to get rid of most depilating diseases that have tied you down or those who you love.
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Believe it or not, often depilation even on winter helps you in maintaining a velvet-like skin; by depilating you remove the death cell layer.
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