Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To shed or cast off (a covering).
- intransitive verb To shed or cast off exuviae; molt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To molt; shed or cast some part, as skin, hair, feathers, teeth, or shell.
- To shed, cast, or throw off, as an effete skin, shell, or other external covering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Zoöl.) To she [1913 Webster]d an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, intransitive, rare To
shed orcast off acovering , especially askin ; toslough ; tomolt (moult ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
A malison on the poor of spirit. Angry Professor 2008
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With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
Archive 2008-10-01 Angry Professor 2008
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We may remark that other classes of animals exuviate in a similar manner to the crustaceans.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 Various 1841
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The lexicographers behind Britain's Collins English Dictionary have decided to exuviate (shed) rarely-used and archaic words as part of an abstergent (cleansing) process to make room for up to 2,000 new entries.
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Therefore, I vaticinate that when these fubsy, olid, griseous beards reach caducity and exuviate their mortal coils, the skirr of nitid angel’s wings will not be heard.
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: cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous
Club Troppo 2008
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those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
A Gentleman's C Angry Professor 2008
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:) BTW, to exuviate some light on the caliginosity of what is Digg, I am abstergent myself of something very olid here and taking a break.
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