Exuviate

Quick meaning: Exuviate is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).

Meaning

(ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).

Example Sentences

Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.

Although multicultural societies are difficult to manage, they need not become a political nightmare and might even become exciting if we exuviate our long traditional preoccupation with a culturally homogeneous and tightly structured polity and allow them instead to intimate their own appropriate institutional forms, modes of governance, and moral and political virtues.

Word Forms

• exuviates
• exuviating
• exuviated

Synonyms for exuviate

Depending on context, synonyms include moult, molt, slough, shed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include moult, molt, slough, shed, desquamate, mute.

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