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molt
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molt as in:  to molt

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  • Distress can push a bird straight into a molting, and we wouldn't want that!†  (source)
  • When their egg production begins to drop, the hens will be "force-molted" — starved of food, water, and light for several days in order to stimulate a final spurt of egg laying before their life's work is done.†  (source)
  • You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in.†  (source)
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  • It was attached to a demon that looked like a massive molting parrot with tentacles exploding out from where its wings should have been.†  (source)
  • At a tender age he had developed mange, or leprosy, or some other such infantile disease, and had lost all his hair, never to recover it — a tragedy which may have had a bearing on the fact that, when I knew him, he had already devoted fifteen years of his life to a study of the relationship between summer molt and incipient narcissism in pocket gophers.†  (source)
  • Grandma Fontaine, withered, wrinkled and yellow as an old molted bird, was leaning on her cane, and behind her were Sally Munroe Fontaine and Young Miss Fontaine.†  (source)
  • Exit Molts  (source)
  • After birth the Young were moved to a creche where they went through a series of moltings over twenty years and then were released as adults.†  (source)
  • All the paint was peeling, and the house looked as if it were molting.†  (source)
  • The paper battles rage through the mails onto the desks of busy politicians, while back in the chicken yard one hawk after another circles overhead till the chickens are unable to come out of hiding and their neck feathers molt from the permanent crick.†  (source)
  • The storm left the sky thin and dappled gray, like a molted snakeskin.†  (source)
  • The window displayed a pyramid of slabs in brownish-purple jackets, inscribed: The Vulture Is Molting.†  (source)
  • [40] Many of these transformations were afterward abandoned, but a large number survived, for example, /climbed/ for /clomb/ as the preterite of /to climb/, and /melted/ for /molt/ as the preterite of /to melt/†  (source)
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