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- Dictionarypeel/piːl/
verb
- 1. remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable): "she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care" Similar
- 2. (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces: "the walls are peeling" Similar
noun
- 1. the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable: "pieces of potato peel"
- 2. an act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.
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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.
1. a. : to come off in sheets or scales. The paint is peeling. b. : to lose an outer layer (as of skin) His face is peeling. 2. : to take off one's clothes. it got hotter … you had to peel to get relief L. M. Uris. 3. : to break away from a group or formation often used with off.
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.
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.
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.
To leave or depart, especially in a hurry. peel out. To leave quickly, especially by accelerating a vehicle so that the tires spin: peeled out of the driveway.
PEEL definition: 1. to remove the skin of fruit or vegetables: 2. If you peel something from a surface, you remove…. Learn more.
peel meaning, definition, what is peel: to remove the skin from fruit or vegetab...: Learn more.
Definition of peel verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
PEEL meaning: 1 : to remove the skin from (a fruit, vegetable, etc.); 2 : to remove (a covering, shell, etc.) from something often + from often + off