• to exfoliate, to flake, to flake away, to flake off, to grow bare, to peel, to peel off, to slough, to spal
• cuticle, outer skin, peel
• to flake, to hull, to husk, to pare, to strip
• to exfoliate, to flake, to flake away, to flake off, to peel, to peel off, to scale off, to spal
• scaling, shelling, stripping
• chiseler, cole, con man, confidence crook, confidence man, fake, fraud, gouge, hawk, humbug, hustler, mountebank, rogue, rooky, sharper, swindler, trickster