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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: exfoliate)
Usage examples of "exfoliated".
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.