flake off

English

Verb

flake off (third-person singular simple present flakes off, present participle flaking off, simple past and past participle flaked off)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) come off in flakes.
    The apartment felt damp, and the paint on the walls was beginning to flake off.
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