Flaking off
peeling off
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peeling off
a : to come off in pieces
• The paint is peeling (off).
• She got sunburned and the skin on her back is peeling (off).
b : to lose an outer layer of skin, bark, etc.
• She got sunburned and her back is peeling.
Webster.
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flake off
flake off • flake off sth to break away from a surface in small, very thin pieces - use this especially about old paint or dry skin:
• The walls were damp, and some of the white paint was flaking off.
• There were ugly patches of red where the skin had flaked off her sunburned shoulders.
• SIMILAR TO: peel off
Longman
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flake /fleɪk/
verb [I]
Patches of skin are starting to flake off.
Cambridge
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flake verb
- 1. intransitive ~ (off) to fall off in small thin pieces
- • You could see bare wood where the paint had flaked off.
- • His skin was dry and flaking