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scales off

scales off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scale off.

Meaning of scale 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

Questions about scales off

What is scales off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scales off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scale off.

Words near scales off in the dictionary

  1. scalers
  2. scales
  3. scales back
  4. scales down
  5. scales fall from someone's eyes
  6. scales off
  7. scales out
  8. scales up
  9. scaleseed
  10. scaleseeds
  11. scalesia

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