Peel synonyms and antonyms
pēl
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To remove the rind from.
To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
Skin is the outer layer of something.
To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel.
To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare:
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A shell or outer covering, especially when considered worthless.
The tough outer covering of the woody stems and roots of trees, shrubs, and other woody plants. It includes all tissues outside the vascular cambium.
To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.
desquamative
Of, relating to, or attended with, desquamation.
exfoliative
That causes, or is accompanied by, exfoliation
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The shedding of an exoskeleton, as in insects and crustaceans.
The act of excoriating or flaying
exuviation
The act of exuviating.
skin.--v. pare
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desquamate
To fall off in scales; peel off
The definition of excoriate is to chafe, abrade or wear off the skin.
To shed or cast off (a covering).
Flake is defined as to peel or chip off.
To pierce the hull of (a ship) with a shell, torpedo, etc.
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To put or throw, in large quantities
To remove the bandages from (a wound, for example).
pulp (antonym)
Plant matter remaining after a process, such as the extraction of juice by pressure, has been completed:
insides (antonym)
Plural form of inside guts, intestines, innards
innards (antonym)
The inner parts of anything
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Robert Peel
British politician (1788-1850)
(Intransitive) To remove all of one's clothing.
To undress oneself.
(Intransitive) To separate off from the main body, to move off to one side; as in troop movements on a parade ground or an organized retreat, or columns in a procession.
come off in flakes or thin small pieces
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dress (antonym)
(Military, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command.
chop (related)
lemon (related)
de-seed (related)
A set of electron orbitals that have nearly the same energy. Electrons in outer shells have greater energy than those in shells closer to the nucleus. Elements in the Periodic Table range from the lightest elements with electrons normally occupying one shell (hydrogen and helium) to the heaviest, with electrons in seven shells (radium and uranium, for instance).
Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season:
surface (related)
The outer or the topmost boundary of an object.
put-on (related)
To remove the skin of
sir robert peel
British politician (1788-1850)
Find another word for peel. In this page you can discover 54 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for peel, like: rind, cover, desquamation, shuck, skin, decorticate, strip, uncase, husk, bark and pare.
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