MEANING
To shed or cause the shedding of an outer layer, especially the outer layers of skin.
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Words that belong together
- skin desquamates
- desquamating skin
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The skin began to desquamate around the old mark.
The physician described desquamating skin without identifying one cause from its appearance.
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Word forms
- Base
- desquamate
- Past tense
- desquamated
- Past participle
- desquamated
- Present participle
- desquamating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- desquamate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are desquamating
- Present perfect
- have/has desquamated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been desquamating
- Past
- desquamated
- Past continuous
- was/were desquamating
- Past perfect
- had desquamated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been desquamating
- Future
- will desquamate
- Future continuous
- will be desquamating
- Future perfect
- will have desquamated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been desquamating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: desquamate; desquamates; desquamated; desquamated; desquamating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: desquamates.
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