The Collaborative International Dictionary
Desquamate
Desquamate \Des"qua*mate\, v. i. [L. desquamatus, p. p. of desquamare to scale off; de- + squama scale.] (Med.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
Wiktionary
desquamate
vb. To shed or peel
WordNet
desquamate
v. peel off in scales; "dry skin desquamates" [syn: peel off]
Usage examples of "desquamate".
We kept a course parallel to the river, the hack swaying from side to side as the wooden-toothed Jehu on the box-seat picked our way recklessly round an obstacle course of desquamated roof-tiles, shattered bits of quern-stone and the iron hoops and broken staves of long-emptied kegs of ale.
Paint and plaster bubbled, desquamating grotesquely, as the massive houses became homes for more and more of New Crobuzon’s swelling population.