exfoliate
verb (used with object)
to throw off in scales, splinters, etc.
were exfoliating
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past progressiveof exfoliate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He had shown her where even the great corner-stones were exfoliating; with his finger-tip he could flake off the loosened bits, but regretfully, and only as an object-lesson.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
