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Mar 7, 2023

This week’s theme
Unusual synonyms

This week’s words
interpunction
exuviate
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Exuviate, waxing and skin salon

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

exuviate

PRONUNCIATION:

(ig-ZOO-vee-ayt)

MEANING:

verb tr., intr.: To shed or cast off.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin exuere (to take off). Earliest documented use: 1855.

USAGE:

“Jianfei coiled in her quilt like a serpent exuviating.”
Lijian Zhao; Red Love; AuthorHouse; 2018.

See more usage examples of exuviate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds. -Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)

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