The scaling of a bone; the process of separating, as pieces of unsound bone from the sound part; desquamation.
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The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
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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