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1. Form into flakes
   "The substances started to flake"
    
2. Cover with flakes or as if with flakes
    
3. Come off in flakes or thin small pieces
   - peel off, peel, flake off

1. A crystal of snow
   - snowflake
    
2. A person with an unusual or odd personality
   - eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, geek, dag [Austral, NZ]
    
3. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole
   - bit, chip, fleck, scrap

Derived forms: flaked, flaking, flakes

See also: flaky

Type of: anomaly, break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off, cover, crystal, form, fragment, unusual person

Part of: snow, snowfall

Encyclopedia: Flake Flake, Ontario