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   peel

   /pēl/

   verb

   • 1. remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable): "she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care" Similar pareskintake the skin/rind offstripshavetrimflayhullshellhuskshucktechnical:decorticate
   • ▪ remove (the outer covering or skin) from a fruit or vegetable: "with a small knife, peel the skin from the ginger" Similar trim (off)peel offparestrip (off)shave (off)removetake off
   • ▪ (of a fruit or vegetable) have a skin that can be removed: "oranges that peel easily"
   • 2. (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces: "the walls are peeling" Similar flake (off)peel offcome off in layers/stripsblistertechnical:exfoliatedesquamate
   • ▪ (of an outer layer or covering) come off, especially in strips or small pieces: "paint was peeling from the shopfronts"

   noun

   • 1. the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable.

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): variant of dialect pill, from Latin pilare ‘to strip hair from’, from pilus ‘hair’. The differentiation of peel and pill may have been by association with the French verbs peler ‘to peel’ and piller ‘to pillage’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. peelable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 6

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishPEEL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   PEEL definition: 1. to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables: 2. If a layer or covering peels, it slowly comes…. Learn more.

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   noun (1) 1. : the skin or rind of a fruit or vegetable. banana/lemon/potato peels. 2. : a thin layer of organic material that is embedded in a film of collodion and stripped from the surface of an object (such as a plant fossil) for microscopic study. 3. : chemical peel. peel.

4. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishPEEL definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   peel means to pull or strip off the natural external covering or protection of something: to peel an orange, a potato. pare is used of trimming off chips, flakes, or superficial parts from something, as well as of cutting off the skin or rind: to pare the nails; to pare a potato.

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   Peel means to pull or strip off the natural external covering or protection of something: to peel an orange, a potato. Pare is used of trimming off chips, flakes, or superficial parts from something, as well as of cutting off the skin or rind: to pare the nails; to pare a potato.

6. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › peelPeel - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   A peel is the covering of a fruit or vegetable. Some peels are thick and easy to remove, like an orange peel, while others might be more stubborn, like the thin peel on a potato. When you remove an apple peel or the peel of an eggplant, you peel it.

7. www.ldoceonline.com › dictionary › peelpeel | meaning of peel in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary...

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   peel meaning, definition, what is peel: to remove the skin from fruit or vegetab...: Learn more.

8. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › learner-englishPEEL | meaning - Cambridge Learner's Dictionary

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   PEEL definition: 1. to remove the skin of fruit or vegetables: 2. If you peel something from a surface, you remove…. Learn more.