In surgery and mineralogy, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral.
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2. To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.
Separated in thin scales, as a carious bone.
of Exfoliate
Divestment Roget’s Thesaurus §226
N. divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis
V. divest, uncover &c. (cover ), denude, bare, strip, disfurnish, undress, disrobe &c. (dress, enrobe ), uncoif, dismantle, put off, take off, cast off, doff, peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay, expose, lay open, exfoliate, molt, mew, cast the skin
Adj. 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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