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flake off

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Verb1.flake off - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
peel, flake, peel off
chip, chip off, break away, break off, come off - break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped"
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The washing tank is a long drum with a central shaft, friction-generating paddles, and an auger that pulls PET flake off the bottom.
PET reclaimer moves downstream by Schut, Jan H. / Plastics Technology
Putting CLP on CARC paint causes the paint to flake off and makes it easier for enemy radar to detect you.
PM a boon for boom by PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
A line of plus and equal signs across one of the ink-soaked pieces of paper looks like a rendering of the stations of the cross, lending the work instant gravitas (Untitled, 1992), but the marks are made in correction tape, which has begun to flake off.
Lucia Nogueira: the Drawing Room at Tannery Arts by Mears, Emily Speers / Artforum International
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