exuviate

• The lexicographers behind Britain's Collins English Dictionary have decided to exuviate (shed) rarely-used and archaic words as part of an abstergent (cleansing) process to make room for up to 2,000 new entries. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
• We may remark that other classes of animals exuviate in a similar manner to the crustaceans. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
• those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom. —  A Gentleman's C
• :) BTW, to exuviate some light on the caliginosity of what is Digg, I am abstergent myself of something very olid here and taking a break. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
• : cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous —  Club Troppo

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