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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