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58 words match “CERATE”

CERATE n.
An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
CERATED p.
Covered with wax.
ACERATE n. 2 definitions
A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
ADIPOCERATE v.
To convert adipocere.
CANCERATE v.
To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.
DILACERATE v.
To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.
DISINCARCERATE v.
To liberate from prison. [R.] Harvey.
EMACERATE v.
To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] Bullokar.
EVISCERATE v.
To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
EXULCERATE v. 3 definitions
To ulcerate. [Obs.] "To exulcerate the lungs." Evelyn.
GLYCERATE n.
A salt of glyceric acid.
INCARCERATE v. 3 definitions
To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.
INVISCERATE v. 2 definitions
To breed; to nourish. [R.] W. Montagu.
LACERATE v.
To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
LACERATE; LACERATED p. 2 definitions
Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.
MACERATE v. 3 definitions
liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.
MACERATER n.
One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.
ULCERATE v. 2 definitions
To be formed into an ulcer; to become ulcerous.
ULCERATED a.
Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.
VISCERATE v.
To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
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