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/ɪɡˈzjuː.vɪ.eɪt/ · verb
(ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult)..
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.
Use exuviate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Exuviate means (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult)..
Common synonyms include moult, molt, slough, shed.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.
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