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All molt synonyms

molt
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verb molt

  • decorticate — to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
  • peel — to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.: to peel an orange.
  • slough — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
  • doff — to remove or take off, as clothing.
  • shed — Textiles. (on a loom) a triangular, transverse opening created between raised and lowered warp threads through which the shuttle passes in depositing the loose pick.
  • cast — The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
  • skin — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
  • scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
  • flake — fake2 (defs 2, 3).
  • exuviate — (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
  • cast off — If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you.
  • pull off — the act of pulling or drawing.
  • take off — the act of taking.
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