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DEPILATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of removing hair (as from an animal skin)
Synonyms:
depilation; epilation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("depilation" is a kind of...):
cleaning; cleansing; cleanup (the act of making something clean)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depilation"):
shave; shaving (the act of removing hair with a razor)
electrolysis (removing superfluous or unwanted hair by passing an electric current through the hair root)
Derivation:
depilate (remove body hair)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The condition of being void of hair
Synonyms:
depilation; hairlessness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("depilation" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depilation"):
baldness; phalacrosis (the condition of having no hair on the top of the head)
