flake off

1. 1.

   come off in flakes or thin small pieces

   “The paint in my house is peeling off”

   Synonymspeel offpeelflake

   Broaderchip

Questions about flake off

What does flake off mean?

flake off means "come off in flakes or thin small pieces".

What is another word for flake off?

Close synonyms include peel off, peel, flake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flake off a common word?

flake off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.