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flake

verb as in peel off

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The company's founder, Will Keith Kellogg, is widely considered to be the inventor of corn flakes.

From BBC

They found that flake cereals with fruit “played more into people’s need for sensory pleasure,” Food Business News reported.

From Salon

It’s totally understandable to feel angry, hurt or embarrassed when someone flakes on you, and you might want to write that person out of your life entirely.

"You have to be very careful because you can only assemble the pieces a small number of times before the plaster starts to be damaged and it flakes off," he said.

From BBC

Indeed, there are two kinds of snow on Mars: water ice and carbon dioxide, better known as dry ice, which has flakes that are actually cube-shaped.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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