peel

Speech parts

1. peel - Noun

2. peel - Verb

3. Peel - Proper noun

Meaning

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

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.

To plunder; to pillage; to rob.

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.

To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

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.

The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

skin strip flake pare disrobe flay scale remove shell trim shave rind zest undress shuck
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Antonyms

mufti shack homburg dress drapery frock
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Hypernyms

strip chip rind take-off break off break away

Hyponyms

flay jacket take-off peel off orange peel banana skin

Phrases with the word

peel me a grape peel rubber candied peel orange-peel skin peel county peel off his garments

Derivatives

peeled peeling

Anagrams

leep Lepe Pele

Examples

please don't undress in front of everybody! Source: Internet

She strips in front of strangers every night for a living Source: Internet

The paint in my house is peeling off Source: Internet

pare apples Source: Internet

A 70-year-old man is dead after being hit by a vehicle in Mississauga Friday evening, Peel Regional Police say. Source: Internet

1965–68: With Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) In 1965 the show was sold to a United States network, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

peeksy peekytoe peekytoe crab peel away peel back the onion peel county