EXFOLIATE
- (of a material) Come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers
- Cause to do this
- Wash or rub (a part of the body) with a granular substance to remove dead cells from the surface of the skin
- Shed (material) in scales or layers
- to separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark [v EXFOLIATED, EXFOLIATING, EXFOLIATES]