exfoliating

Variant of exfoliate

transitive verb, intransitive verb exfoliated, exfoliating

to cast or come off in flakes, scales, or layers, as skin, bark, rock, etc.

Origin: < LL exfoliatus, pp. of exfoliare, to strip of leaves < L ex-, out + folium, a leaf: see foil

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