Dictionary Entry
exfoliate
exfoliate is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 20 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
- 2intransitive verb
To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
- 3transitive verb
To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.
- 4verb
grow by producing or unfolding leaves
"plants exfoliate"
- 5verb
come off in a very thin piece
- 6verb
remove the surface, in scales or laminae
- 7verb
cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
- 8verb
spread by opening the leaves of
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