desquamate

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The effects may last a week, and the skin may desquamate.

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  1. intransitive verb To shed, peel, or come off in scales. Used of skin.

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  1. Latin dēsquāmāre, dēsquāmāt- : dē-, de- + squāma, scale.

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  1. from Latin desquamatus, past participle of desquamare (later F. desquamer), scale off, from de, off, + squama, scale.
 

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