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molt

verbCommon GRE wordMore M words

to shed feathers, skin, or fur before new growth

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Molt in a sentence

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The snake molted its skin as it continued to grow throughout the summer.

Synonyms
shedsloughcastdrop
Antonyms
growaccumulateretain

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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Questions about “molt”

Molt (verb) means to shed feathers, skin, or fur before new growth
Here is molt used in an example sentence: "The snake molted its skin as it continued to grow throughout the summer."
Common synonyms for molt include shed, slough, cast, drop.
Antonyms of molt include grow, accumulate, retain.
Molt is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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