Definition of Desquamate

to peel off in flakes (especially when related to skin.)

Examples of Desquamate in a sentence

After rubbing her skin roughly when she showered, the woman’s dead hide started to desquamate into tiny flakes.  🔊

Humans’ skin will naturally desquamate and sheds unnoticeably ever fourteen days.  🔊

Tess got a sunburn at the pool which caused her skin to desquamate and peel off rapidly.  🔊

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