Crossword clues for exfoliate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exfoliate \Ex*fo"li*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Exfoliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exfoliating.] [L. exfoliare to strip of leaves; ex out, from + folium leaf.]
To separate and come off in scales or lamin[ae], as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
(Min.) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
Exfoliate \Ex*fo"li*ate\ v. t. To remove scales, lamin[ae], or splinters from the surface of.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To remove the leaves from a plant. 2 To remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation. 3 (context mineralogy English) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales as the result of heat or decomposition.
WordNet
v. spread by opening the leaves of
cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
remove the surface, in scales or laminae
come off in a very thin piece
grow by producing or unfolding leaves; "plants exfoliate"
Usage examples of "exfoliate".
The bones exfoliated, the spine and the acromial end of the scapula came away, and a good stump was formed.
There is empirical evidence suggesting that papain enzymes help heal uneven pigmentation, fine lines, and brown spots in addition to exfoliating skin.
She had an acid exfoliating cream, hard-core, prescribed, and after she stripped the hair she rubbed in the cream to remove wastepapery skin in flakes and scales and little rolling boluses that she liked to hold between her fingers and imagine, unmorbidly, as the cell death of something inside her.
With his long matchstick he pressed aside the undergrowth of stiff grey hairs embellished with flakes of exfoliated scurf.
A good mage or shaman could, theoretically, track me down from a fresh drop of blood, broken fingernail, maybe even a trace of exfoliated skin that I might have left behind at the crime scene.
Her skin already looks exfoliated, plucked, scruffed, moisturized, and made up until she could be a piece of refinished furniture.
Her skin already looks exfoliated, plucked, scrubbed, moisturized, and made up until she could be a piece of refinished furniture.
Its hilt was wrapped with twine, and its exfoliated edge was as sharp as a razor.
She lathered, exfoliated, and shaved, until her skin felt silky smooth and eminently touchable (not that she was planning to let anyone touch it or anything).
Here questions exfoliated, so to speak, into innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy.
Here, the questions exfoliated, so to speak, into innumerable enigmas, abyss opened at the bottom of abysm, and Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without dizziness.
But should Bortz have exfoliated the mere words so lushly, into such unnatural roses, under which, in whose red, scented dusk, dark history slithered unseen?
Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturized, spots cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised.
The real secret would be the formula by which the 'now' keeps exfoliating out of itself, yet never escapes.
Reaching up, he scratched at an exfoliating neck scale with the index claw of his right hand.