Synonyms for flake
fleɪkflake

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1. snowflake, flakenoun

   a crystal of snow

   Synonyms:
   bit, eccentric, snowflake, chip, fleck, eccentric person, scrap, snowbird, geek, snow bunting, oddball

2. eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geeknoun

   a person with an unusual or odd personality

   Synonyms:
   character, bit, eccentric, case, type, snowflake, chip, fleck, scrap, geek, eccentric person, oddball

3. bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrapverb

   a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

   "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"

   Synonyms:
   fight, microchip, turn, fighting, maculation, act, spot, piece, eccentric, snowflake, combat, poker chip, bit, buffalo chip, eccentric person, snatch, second, routine, chipping, splintering, mo, dapple, silicon chip, rubbish, minute, chip, fleck, potato chip, geek, microprocessor chip, number, speckle, oddball, morsel, scrap, micro chip, moment, bite, cow dung, trash, chip shot, crisp, cow chip, patch, check

4. flakeverb

   form into flakes

   "The substances started to flake"

   Synonyms:
   peel, peel off, flake off

5. flakeverb

   cover with flakes or as if with flakes

   Synonyms:
   peel, peel off, flake off

6. peel off, peel, flake off, flakeverb

   come off in flakes or thin small pieces

   "The paint in my house is peeling off"

   Synonyms:
   peel, undress, unclothe, flake off, disrobe, desquamate, discase, strip, peel off, uncase, pare, skin, strip down

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1. • Cover
   • Crystal
   • Form
   • Person

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1. flakenoun

   Synonyms:
   scale, lamina, layer

2. flakeverb

   Synonyms:
   scale off, come off in flakes

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1. flakenoun

   Synonyms:
   film, flock, lamina, scale

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1. List of paraphrases for "flake":

   biscuit

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1. Daniel Pout:

   Pout, Daniel Pout, thinks Democratic Socialists of America might someday have a chance at building enough support to run candidates of Democratic Socialists of America own, under the Socialist Party banner. There’s an attack on the center, in both parties, on business-as-usual, jeff Flake, in my state, decided not to run again, Jeff Flake sees no way Jeff Flake can fight against this anti-establishment, anti-status-quo.

2. Jeff Flake:

   This is the first time that a number of senators have actually stood up, a number of Senators from the President's party and said,' No, Jeff Flake can't do that, and we're going to pass legislation to rein this in,' and so that is our prerogative, that's what we should be doing, that's what we should have been doing sooner than now.

3. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders:

   I think Senator Flake would serve Senator Flake constituents much better if Senator Flake was less focused on writing a book and attacking the president than passing legislation.

4. Chuck Grassley:

   So we can just delay and delay and delay, if we don't vote for any more judges that Flake doesn't want to vote for until September, we still probably got plenty to do.

5. Leonard Cohen:

   And you treated my woman to a flake of your life/ And when she came back she was nobody's wife.