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FLAKE OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come off in flakes or thin small pieces
Example:
The paint in my house is peeling off
Synonyms:
flake; flake off; peel; peel off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "flake off" is one way to...):
break away; break off; chip; chip off; come off (break off (a piece from a whole))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
