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Exuviate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To shed or cast off (a covering).

verb-intransitive. To shed or cast off exuviae; molt.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To she [1913 Webster]d an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To molt; shed or cast some part, as skin, hair, feathers, teeth, or shell.

To shed, cast, or throw off, as an effete skin, shell, or other external covering.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

Word Usage

"With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom."

Verb Form

exuviated exuviates exuviating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

throwaway shed shake off throw cast drop throw-off cast-off

Hyponym

desquamate peel off

Form

exuviated exuviating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

molt slough