exfoliate

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• General-American: /ɛksˈfoʊlieɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɛksˈfəʊlieɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: EH0 K S F OW1 L IY0 EY0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Latin exfoliō (“to strip of leaves”), from ex- (“out of”) + folium (“leaf”); compare effoliate and French exfolier.

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: обезлиствам (obezlistvam) — to remove the leaves of a plant
• Dutch: ontbladeren — to remove the leaves of a plant
• Galician: esfollar — to remove the leaves of a plant
• German: entblättern — to remove the leaves of a plant
• Bulgarian: лющя (ljuštja) — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Bulgarian: ексфолирам (eksfoliram) — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Catalan: exfoliar — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Chinese Mandarin: 去角質 /去角质 (qùjiǎozhí) — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Dutch: exfoliëren — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• French: exfolier — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Portuguese: exfoliar — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Portuguese: esfoliar — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Spanish: exfoliar — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Swedish: exfoliera — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation
• Welsh: diblisgo — to remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation