flaked

Meaning of flaked

adjective
  1. (of food) separated or cut into flakes or thin pieces.
    flaked almonds
    flaked fish
verb, past tense
  1. come or fall away from a surface in flakes.
    the paint had been flaking off for years
  2. separate (food) into flakes or thin pieces.
    flake the fish
  3. fail to keep an appointment or fulfil a commitment, especially with little or no advance notice.
    a real friend won't ever flake on you
    twice, you had plans, and both times you flaked

Middle English: the immediate source is unknown, the senses perhaps deriving from different words; probably of Germanic origin and related to flag2 and flaw1.

verb, past tense
  1. fall asleep; drop from exhaustion.
    he got back in time to flake out until morning

late 15th century (in the senses ‘become languid’ and (of a garment) ‘fall in folds’): variant of obsolete flack and the verb flag4. The current sense dates from the 1940s.

verb, past tense
  1. lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it tangling.
    a cable had to be flaked out

early 17th century (as a noun): of unknown origin; compare with German Flechte in the same sense.

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Hyphenation of flaked

flaked

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • flaked is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

flaked synonyms

Meaning remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable):

peel

Meaning cut or break (a small piece) from a hard material:

chip

Meaning form blisters on the skin or other surface:

blister

Meaning (of a layer of cells, e.g. of the skin) come off in scales or flakes:

desquamate

Meaning (of a material) be shed from a surface in scales or layers:

exfoliate

Meaning (of a structure) suddenly fall down or give way:

collapse

Meaning let or make (something) fall vertically:

drop

Meaning lose consciousness for a short time because of a temporarily insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain:

faint

Meaning faint, especially from extreme emotion:

swoon

Anagrams of flaked

defalk

Words that rhyme with flaked

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