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Beflake

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beflayverb(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To flay; strip; peel.
sloughnounThe skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
flakenounA loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
flaynoun(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fright; a scare.
peelnoun(usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
flake offverb(ambitransitive) To (cause to) come off in flakes.
peel offverb(transitive) To remove (an outer layer or covering, such as clothing).
exfoliateverbTo remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.
efflowerverb(rare) To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife.
flake outverb(intransitive, informal) To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert someone.
flinchverb(intransitive) To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe; to blench.
flensenounTo strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
degloveverbTo peel back the skin from part of the body as if removing a glove, especially as the result of an accident.
pillnoun(broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
defluffverb(transitive) To remove the fluff from.
excoriateverb(transitive, figuratively) To strongly condemn or criticize.
sculpnoun(obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
foliateOf or relating to leaves.
skimnounA cursory reading, skipping the details.
scalenounAn ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

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