exfoliate
verb [intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exfoliate | |
| he / she / it exfoliates | |
| past simple exfoliated | |
| past participle exfoliated | |
| -ing form exfoliating |
- exfoliate (something)
to remove dead cells from the surface of skin in order to make it smoother 使死皮剥脱 Oxford 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’.