Acuates vs Vacuates - What's the difference?
acuates | vacuates |
(acuate)
(obsolete) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
* Harvey
(vacuate)
To empty, to clear out.
* 1861 , W. R. Wilde, On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process'', in ''The Medical Times and Gazette , volume 1, page 488
As verbs the difference between acuates and vacuates
is that acuates is (acuate) while vacuates is (vacuate).acuates
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(head)acuate
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(acuat)- [To] acuate the blood.
vacuates
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(head)vacuate
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(vacuat)- Mr. Toynbee recommends, in cases of ruptured membrane tympani, "directing the stream of water [in syringing] through the orifice of the membrane into the tympanum in oder to vacuate the latter cavity of its contents."