Meaning & use
exfoliate
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To remove dead cells from the surface of the skin, or, of rock, to peel off in layers.
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She likes to exfoliate her skin twice a week with a gentle scrub.
Over centuries, the granite boulder began to exfoliate under repeated freezing and thawing.
A note on using this word
Widely known from skincare routines, but originally a geology term describing rock that sheds its outer layers.
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