ablated

1. 1.

   made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization

   “the rocket's ablated head shield”

   Similardecreased

Questions about ablated

What does ablated mean?

ablated means "made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization".

How many syllables are in ablated?

ablated has 3 syllables: a-bla-ted. The stress falls on "a".

Is ablated a common word?

ablated is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.