Exuviate

From Latin exuviae ("what is shed"), from exuÅ ("cast off, strip")

Full definition of exuviate

(ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).

1996, Rolf Ludvigsen, Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils Chapter 4, Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.
2002, Bhikhu C. Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory, Although multicultural societies are difficult to manage, they need not become a political nightmare and might even become exciting if we exuviate our long traditional preoccupation with a culturally homogeneous and tightly structured polity and allow them instead to intimate their own appropriate institutional forms, modes of governance, and moral and political virtues.