The act or operation by which certain animals, annually or at certain times, cast off or lose their hair, feathers, skins, horns, etc.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Casting or shedding a natural covering, as hair, feathers, skin or horns.
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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