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Mar 7, 2023
This week’s theme
Unusual synonyms

This week’s words
interpunction
exuviate
cyesis
cogitate
blatteroon

exuviate
Exuviate, waxing and skin salon

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exuviate

PRONUNCIATION:
(ig-ZOO-vee-ayt)

MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To shed or cast off.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin exuere (to take off). Earliest documented use: 1855.

USAGE:
“Jianfei coiled in her quilt like a serpent exuviating.”
Lijian Zhao; Red Love; AuthorHouse; 2018.

See more usage examples of exuviate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds. -Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)

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