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exfoliate

to come off in layers or scales; to remove the outer surface(s);
to grow as if by unfolding leaves; to extend as if by spreading out leaves

(Don't confuse with defoliate: to lose -- or deprive of -- leaves.)

Sightings:

Some trees do -- some trees don't

Ya gotta have skin, it keeps the inside in

Did Alice need Head & Shoulders?

Fossil flies

Music that interlaces

Hawthorne's rare triumphs

Get inside your lungs

Where the sentences run wild and grammar be damned

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