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

1. intransitive verb. To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
2. intransitive verb. To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
3. transitive verb. To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.
4. verb. grow by producing or unfolding leaves

   "plants exfoliate"

5. verb. come off in a very thin piece
6. verb. remove the surface, in scales or laminae
7. verb. cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
8. verb. spread by opening the leaves of

Common word forms

exfoliated, exfoliates, exfoliating

Words from these letters

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