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exestuation |
exeunt |
exfetation |
exfiltration operation |
exfoliate |
exfoliation
| exfoliative
| exhalable
| exhalant
| exhalation
| exhale
exfoliation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun exfoliation has 2 senses
- exfoliation(n = noun.phenomenon) Array - the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin; "exfoliation is increased by sunburn" is a kind of organic phenomenon
- exfoliation(n = noun.object) scale, scurf - a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin; Array is a kind of bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
Derived forms verb exfoliate4, verb exfoliate3, verb exfoliate2
has particulars: dander, dandruff
Derived forms verb exfoliate4, verb exfoliate3, verb exfoliate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
exfoliation, n. [Cf. F. exfoliation.].
The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
exfoliation
Divestment
N divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis, divested, bare, naked, nude, undressed, undraped, denuded, exposed, in dishabille, bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless, in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit, in puris naturalibus, with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked, bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand, out at elbows, barefoot, bareback, barebacked, leafless, napless, hairless.
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