Dictionary

exuviate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɛkˈsuː.vɪ.eɪt/ (US)
• /ɛɡˈzuː.vɪ.eɪt/ (US)
• /ɛkˈsuː.vɪ.eɪt/ (UK)
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• /ɪɡˈzjuː.vɪ.eɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

From Latin exuviae (“what is shed”), from exuō (“cast off, strip”).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
   • 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. 2002, Bhikhu C. Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory, →ISBN, page 344:
   • Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow. 1996, Rolf Ludvigsen, chapter 4, in Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils, →ISBN, page 55:

Forms

Relateds

exuviation · exuviae · exuvial · exuvious

Synonyms

moult (to shed or cast off a covering) · slough (to shed or cast off a covering) · molt (to shed or cast off a covering)

Translations (7)

ru сбра́сывать ко́жу (to shed or cast off a covering) · hu vedlik (to shed or cast off a covering) · fi luoda kuorensa (to shed or cast off a covering) · fi luoda nahkansa (to shed or cast off a covering) · es mudar (to shed or cast off a covering) · ru линя́ть (to shed or cast off a covering) · pt mudar (to shed or cast off a covering)