Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To shed, peel, or come off in scales. Used of skin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To scale off; peel off; exfoliate; be shed, cast, or molted in the form of scales or flakes.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. (Med.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
WordNet 3.0
- v. peel off in scales
Etymologies
- Latin dēsquāmāre, dēsquāmāt- : dē-, de- + squāma, scale. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The effects may last a week, and the skin may desquamate.”
“About the eighth day the rash begins to scale or desquamate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘desquamate’.
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dacnomania, dacoitage, dacryops, dactylioglyph, dactyliology, dactyliomancy, dactylogram, dactylography, dactyloid, dactylology, dactylomancy, dactylomegaly and 624 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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euphonic logorrhea
cephalopodous, plumulaceous, oblomovism, etiolation, pavonine, somnolent, logorrhea, fulguration, gossamer, prestidigitation, daffodil, inchoate and 174 more...
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To Peel or Scale
Verbs meaning peel or scale
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How very mikeropological..
Basically it's just mikeropology's words, but with his username turned into an adjectivally splendid list name.
mikeropology, squoze, anthropromorphism, mullu, spondylus, goobers, hipster, burnt umber, ochre, canvas, lapizure, burnt sienna and 172 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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List of words to expand my vocabulary
does what it says on the tin, and is severely needed.
indolent, insolent, idly, divulge, tattle, benign, roguish, daintily, idle, dowdy, sordid, wanton and 242 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Words 2011
New words that I've read in 2011
mendacity, drogue, caisson, fakement, abattoir, specious, barbican, inimical, argot, wot, sotto voce, nonce and 76 more...
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brain-fumes and other novelties
ain't you quaint
fillip, lagotic, saturnine, felix culpa, caprine, mesopotamian, polysemy, eructation, scudding, wassail, pule, logorrhea and 22 more...
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Miscellany, pt. d
data mist, disgustipated, dearworth, dogslice, dysphemism, dehisce, daffadowndilly, dulciloquent, dazy, dacryolin, deplore, dead tree edition and 24 more...
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swagstaff's list
words
maieutic, ecdysis, colloge, scaup, incipience, bedizen, cuneate, desquamate, bumbershoot, sanguinary, scofflaw, insuperable and 6 more...
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Maladies
dhobi itch, kerion, tinea, scabies, sarcoptid, urtication, dropsy, lymphedema, papilledema, chemosis, anasarca, vapors and 55 more...
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