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exuviate

Verb CEFR B2
ɪɡˈzjuː.vɪ.eɪt

Definitions

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

ambitransitive, rare

Equivalents

4 more languages
Bosanskimudar
Hrvatskimudar
Magyarvedlik
Српскиmudar

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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