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Definition of 'peel'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) peel
to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.

2.  peel
to strip away from something:
to peel paint from a car.

3. (v.i.) peel
(of skin, bark, paint, etc.) to come off in pieces.

4.  peel
to lose the skin, rind, bark, paint, etc.

5.  peel
Informal. to undress.

6.  peel
peel off,

7.  peel
(of an aircraft) to leave a flight formation with a banking turn.

8.  peel
to veer away from a path or group.

9. (n.) peel
the skin or rind of a fruit or vegetable.

10. (n.) peel
a shovellike implement for moving bread, pies, etc., into or out of an oven.

11. (n.) Peel
Sir Robert, 1788–1850, British statesman: founder of the London constabulary; prime minister 1834–35, 1841–46.

Definition of 'peel'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Peel, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel
British politician (1788-1850)

2. (verb) peel, skin
the rind of a fruit or vegetable

3. (verb) skin, peel, pare
strip the skin off
"pare apples"

4. (verb) peel off, peel, flake off, flake
come off in flakes or thin small pieces
"The paint in my house is peeling off"

5. (verb) undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel
get undressed
"please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"

Definition of 'peel'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) peel
to remove the skin of a fruit or vegetable
First peel and wash the potatoes.

2. peel
to come off a surface in small pieces
The paint had begun to peel.

3. (noun) peel
the skin of a fruit or vegetable
orange/banana/potato peel

Definition of 'peel'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) peel
a small tower, fort, or castle; a keep

2. (noun) peel
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

3. (noun) peel
the skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange

4. (verb) peel
to plunder; to pillage; to rob

5. (verb) peel
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

6. (verb) peel
to strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc

7. (verb) peel
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

Definitions of 'peel'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. peel
a fishing town and holiday resort on the W. coast of the Isle of Man, 12 m. NW. of Douglas; it is noted for its castle.

Translation of 'peel'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to take off the skin or outer covering of (a fruit or vegetable) She peeled the potatoes.
Afrikaans: skil	Arabic: قِشْرَه	Bulgarian: беля
Brazilian: descascar	Czech: loupat	German: schälen
Danish: skrælle	Greek: ξεφλουδίζω	Spanish: pelar
Estonian: koorima	Farsi: پوست کندن	Finnish: kuoria
French: peler	Hebrew: לְקַלֵף	Hindi: छीलना
Croatian: ljuštiti	Hungarian: (meg)hámoz	Indonesian: mengupas
Icelandic: afhÿða, flysja	Italian: sbucciare, pelare	Japanese: 皮をむく
Korean: 껍질을 벗기다	Lithuanian: (nu)lupti, (nu)skusti	Latvian: []mizot
Malay: mengupas	Dutch: schillen	Norwegian: skrelle, pille
Polish: obierać	Persian: پوست کندن	Pashto: .پوستول، له پوسته كول، سپ
Portuguese: descascar	Romanian: a (de)coji	Russian: чистить
Slovak: šúpať, bieliť	Slovenian: lupiti	Serbian: oguliti
Swedish: skala	Thai: ปอกเปลือก	Turkish: (kabuğunu) soymak
Taiwanese: 剝皮	Ukrainian: очищати; лущити	Urdu: چھيلنا
Vietnamese: gọt vỏ	Chinese: 剥皮
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