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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;
- Example: "our dog sheds every Spring"
[syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exuviate \Ex*u"vi*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Exuviated, p. pr.
   & vb. n. Exuviating.][From Exuviae.] (Zo["o]l.)
   To she
   [1913 Webster]d an old covering or condition preliminary to
   taking on a new one; to molt.

         There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do
         not exuviate every year.                 --Huxley.
   [1913 Webster]