Verb

(exuviat)

(ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).

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, year=1996 , author=Rolf Ludvigsen , title=Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils , chapter=4 , isbn=0774805781 , page=55 , passage=Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate , in order to grow.}}

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, year=2002 , author=Bhikhu C. Parekh , title=Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory , isbn=0674009959 , page=344 , passage=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.}}