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Meaning of 'peel' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Peel [ n.]
- 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.
- The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
2 . Peel [ v. i.]
- 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.
3 . Peel [ v. t.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'peel' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . peel [ v]
Meaning (1):
- strip the skin off
Example in sentence:
  • pare apples
Meaning (2):
- get undressed
Example in sentence:
  • please don't undress in front of everybody!;
  • She strips in front of strangers every night for a living
Meaning (3):
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
Example in sentence:
  • The paint in my house is peeling off

Nearby Words:

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