flake
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(verb) cover with flakes or as if with flakes |
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Related Words: cover |
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| 2. |
(verb) form into flakes |
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Related Words: form |
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| 3. |
(noun) a crystal of snow |
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Synonyms: snowflake |
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Related Words: crystal |
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(noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" |
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Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap |
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Related Words: flinders, fragment, matchwood, scale, scurf, sliver, splinter |
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(verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off" |
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Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off |
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Related Words: break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off |
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