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Acuate vs Vacuate - What's the difference?

acuate | vacuate |

As verbs the difference between acuate and vacuate

is that acuate is (obsolete|transitive) to sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken while vacuate is to empty, to clear out.

As an adjective acuate

is sharpened; sharp-pointed.

acuate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sharpened; sharp-pointed.

    • Verb

    (acuat)
  • (obsolete) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
  • * Harvey
    • [To] acuate the blood.

    vacuate

    English

    Verb

    (vacuat)
  • 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
    • 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."

    Related terms

    * vacuation * vacuist, vacuity * vacuous, vacuousness

    See also

    * vacate * evacuate