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PEELED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of peel 2. to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables: 3. If a…. Learn more.
Verb They peeled back the sheet to display the new sculpture. She got sunburned and her back is peeling.
1. To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare. 2. To strip away; pull off: peeled the label from the jar. v.intr. 1. To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering. 2. To come off in thin strips or pieces, as bark, skin, or paint: Her sunburned skin began to peel.
Definition of peel verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to remove (the skin, bark, etc.) or be removed: The old skin peeled off. [ Aeron. ] to leave a flying formation of aircraft with a banking turn, usually from one end of an echelon. [ Informal. ] to turn off or leave (a road): We peeled off the highway onto a dirt road.
Definition Source. Adjective. Verb. Filter. adjective. With the outermost layer removed. The peeled fruit quickly turned brown. He stir the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it. Wiktionary.
The words peel and peal are among the many unhelpfully homophonous pairs of English words. In conversation, it matters not which one has the ea and which one has the two e 's, but in writing, a context calling for one but showing the other can produce a sentence that looks, well, wrong.
Definitions of peeled. adjective. (used informally) completely unclothed. synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, raw, stark naked. unclothed.
peel in British English1. (piːl) verb. 1.(transitive) to remove (the skin, rind, outer covering, etc) of (a fruit, egg, etc) 2.(intransitive) (of paint, etc) to be removed from a surface, esp through weathering. 3.(intransitive) (of a surface) to lose its outer covering of paint, etc, esp through weathering.
In addition to the idiom beginning with peel, also see keep one's eyes open (peeled).
