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stratify: render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds"; form layers or strata; "The rock stratifies"; form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses"; divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society"; develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens"

exfoliate collapse: grow by producing or unfolding leaves; "plants exfoliate"; come off in a very thin piece; remove the surface, in scales or laminae; cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters; spread by opening the leaves of

laminate collapse: a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers; split (wood) into thin sheets; cover with a thin sheet; "laminate the table"; press or beat (metals) into thin sheets; create laminate by putting together several thin sheets of a material

layer collapse: thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells; a hen that lays eggs; single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"; a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another; make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"

flake collapse: cover with flakes or as if with flakes; form into flakes; "The substances started to flake"

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