Meaning of exuviate | Babel Free

Definitions

To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).

ambitransitive, rare

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Examples

“Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.”

“Although multicultural societies are difficult to manage, they need not become a political nightmare and might even become exciting if we exuviate our long traditional preoccupation with a culturally homogeneous and tightly structured polity and allow them instead to intimate their own appropriate institutional forms, modes of governance, and moral and political virtues.”

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