peel
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (3)peels, peeled, peeling
- remove the skin from“pare apples”Synonyms: skinpareMore general stripMore specific peel off, flay
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces“The paint in my house is peeling off”Synonyms: peel offflake offflakeMore general chip, chip off
- get undressed“please don't undress in front of everybody!”“She strips in front of strangers every night for a living”Synonyms: undressdiscaseuncaseunclothestripstrip downdisrobeOpposite enclothe, dressMore general remove, takeMore specific take offSimilar strip, undress
Noun (2)peels
- British politician (1788-1850)Synonyms: Robert PeelSir Robert PeelInstance of politician, politico
- the rind of a fruit or vegetableSynonyms: skinType of rindKinds lemon peel, banana peel, orange peel, jacketPart of edible fruit
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Translations
Verb to remove skin
- Spanish
- pelar
- French
- peler
- German
- schälen
- Italian
- pelare
- Portuguese
- descascar
- Turkish
- soymak
- Russian
- очища́ть očiščátʹ
- Arabic
- قَشَّرَ qaššara
- Chinese
- 削皮 xiāopí
- Japanese
- 皮をむく kawa o muku
33 more languages
- Dutch
- schillen
- Polish
- obierać
- Swedish
- skala
- Greek
- ξεφλουδίζω xefloudízo
- Korean
- 깎다 kkakda
- Indonesian
- mengupas
- Vietnamese
- gọt
- Hungarian
- hámoz
- Portuguese (PT)
- descascar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 削皮 xiāopí
- Albanian
- qëroj
- Breton
- dibluskañ
- Catalan
- pelar
- Czech
- loupat
- Danish
- skrælle
- Esperanto
- senŝeligi
- Estonian
- koorima
- Finnish
- kuoria
- Georgian
- ფრცქვნა prckvna
- Hebrew
- קִלֵּף kiléf
- Icelandic
- afhýða
- Latvian
- mizot
- Lithuanian
- lupti
- Norwegian
- skrelle
- Romanian
- coji
- Scottish Gaelic
- rùisg
- Serbo-Croatian
- guliti
- Slovak
- šúpať
- Slovenian
- lupiti
- Swahili
- kumenya
- Walloon
- peler
- Welsh
- pilio
- Yiddish
- שיילן sheyln
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. pel. Cf. Pile a heap.
A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. Scottish
Origin: F. pelle, L. pala.
A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
Origin: Confused with peel to strip, but fr. F. piller to pillage. See Pill to rob, Pillage.
To plunder; to pillage; to rob. obsolete
But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces.— John Milton
Origin: F. peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr. L. pellis skin (cf. Fell skin). Cf. Peruke.
1. To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.— William Shakespeare
2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
1. To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; — often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
2. To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down. nformal
The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors