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. (present participle of exfoliate English)
Usage examples of "exfoliating".
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.
He lathered with two soaps: first an exfoliating bar with a loofa sponge, followed by a moisturizing bar and soft cloth.
There was The Old House, and The Blue House, and The Windmill, and The Derelict House (with The Ghost) … Instead of exfoliating every miserable fern into a Carboniferous jungle and every patch of grass into the Pampas — as once she had done — now (with mild vindictiveness) she reduced Fairboro to a schematic.