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scale off

scale off verb: to peel off.

Verb

scale off (third-person singular simple present scales off, present participle scaling off, simple past and past participle scaled off)

  1. To peel off
    • Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars

Forms of scale off

third-person singular presentscales off
present participlescaling off
past participlescaled off
pastscaled off

Questions about scale off

What does scale off mean?
Scale off means to peel off.
What part of speech is scale off?
Scale off is a verb.
What is the past tense of scale off?
The past tense of scale off is scaled off.

Words near scale off in the dictionary

  1. scale mails
  2. scale model
  3. scale modeler
  4. scale modelers
  5. scale models
  6. scale off
  7. scale out
  8. scale pan
  9. scale ruler
  10. scale rulers
  11. scale tree

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