peel

Meaning

Verb

1. To remove the skin or outer covering of.
2. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
3. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
4. To remove one's clothing.
5. To move, separate (off or away).

Noun

1. The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
2. The action of peeling away from a formation.
3. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A stake.
2. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
3. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

Noun

1. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
3. The blade of an oar.

Noun

1. An equal or match; a draw.
2. A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

Noun

Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”)

Synonyms

skin

shell

🐚

rind

bark

pare

husk

flay

hull

strip

peel off

scale

peeling

strip off

pod

crust

flake off

flake

remove skin

undress

hide

take off

shuck

paring

come off

tear off

zest

pull

strip down

remove

cut

unclothe

uncase

discase

trim

disrobe

scratch

abstract

bare

chip off

clean

clear

cortex

cover

cut into pieces

deprive

detect

discover

exfoliate

expose

fall off

leather

nick

open

open up

purloin

scrape

shave

shed

skim

split

starve

steal

tear

uncover

husk corn

remove bark

peal

hew

grate

pelt

pick

⛏️

pluck

follow

pot

prune

exuviate

ejector pin

pusher

reach out

extend

etc.

ring

💍

rip

rip off

rubbish

epidermis

scalp

scour

pusher bar

scrape off

envelope

✉️

skin off

shear

sheath

crust tyre

encrustation

despoil

deprive … of

decorticate

skinned

slice

slip off

splinter

stripping pins

push pole

pushover bar

stick out

stretch

crop

cornhusk

coat

🧥

surface

take away

clothing

tappet

knock-out pin

clip

test

thruster

tinkle

toll

choir

casing

bruise

pushing bar

blister

unwrap

valve

bema

be removed

deprive of

aril

peel-back

outer layer

pallium

push over

pushrod

scale off

skim off

testa

decorticatie

episperm

potary

pushbeam

crack

vegetables

outer covering

divide into groups

integument

interpret

investment

jacket

jingle

judge

🧑‍⚖️

leach

apples

mantle

molt

mow

piece of hide

vegetable skin

radius rod

incrustation

increase

Pronounced as (IPA)

/piːl/

Etymology

From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.