exfoliate
verb /eksˈfəʊlieɪt/
/eksˈfəʊlieɪt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exfoliate | /eksˈfəʊlieɪt/ /eksˈfəʊlieɪt/ |
| he / she / it exfoliates | /eksˈfəʊlieɪts/ /eksˈfəʊlieɪts/ |
| past simple exfoliated | /eksˈfəʊlieɪtɪd/ /eksˈfəʊlieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle exfoliated | /eksˈfəʊlieɪtɪd/ /eksˈfəʊlieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form exfoliating | /eksˈfəʊlieɪtɪŋ/ /eksˈfəʊlieɪtɪŋ/ |
- exfoliate (something) to remove dead cells from the surface of skin in order to make it smootherOxford Collocations DictionaryExfoliate is used with these nouns as the object:
- skin
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from late Latin exfoliat- ‘stripped of leaves’, from the verb exfoliare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + folium ‘leaf’.