All peel synonyms
peel
P p verb peel
- disrobe — Take off one's clothes.
- excoriate — Censure or criticize severely.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
- hulled — retaining the hull during threshing; having a persistent enclosing hull: hulled wheat.
- denudate — denuded; bare
- excorticate — (obsolete) To strip of bark or skin.
- hulling — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- denude — To denude an area means to destroy the plants in it.
- doff — to remove or take off, as clothing.
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- exfoliate — (of a material) come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers.
- exuviate — (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
- molt — (of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, or the like, that will be replaced by a new growth.
- decorticate — to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
- flake off — become detached in thin pieces
- get out of — extricate oneself from
- husking — the dry external covering of certain fruits or seeds, especially of an ear of corn.
- desquamate — (esp of the skin in certain diseases) to peel or come off in scales
- flay — to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
- moult — (of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, or the like, that will be replaced by a new growth.
noun peel
- chateau — A château is a large country house or castle in France.
- epicarp — (botany) Exocarp.
- chateaux — (in France) a castle or fortress.
- cutes — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- externality — A side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of the goods or services involved, such as the pollination of surrounding crops by bees kept for honey.
- epidermis — The outer layer of cells covering an organism, in particular.
- cutis — the vertebrate skin, including both of its layers, the dermis and the epidermis
- acropolis — the citadel of an ancient Greek city
- lamina — a thin plate, scale, or layer.
- carapace — A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
- membrane — Anatomy. a thin, pliable sheet or layer of animal or vegetable tissue, serving to line an organ, connect parts, etc.
- alcazar — any of various palaces or fortresses built in Spain by the Moors
- flake — fake2 (defs 2, 3).
- lamella — a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as of bone, tissue, or cell walls.
- derma — beef or fowl intestine used as a casing for certain dishes, esp kishke
- castle — A castle is a large building with thick, high walls. Castles were built by important people, such as kings, in former times, especially for protection during wars and battles.
- dermas — beef or fowl intestine used as a casing in preparing certain savory dishes, especially kishke.
- exteriority — Surface; externality.
- donjon — the inner tower, keep, or stronghold of a castle.
- dermis — the layer of skin just below the epidermis
- hull — Cordell [kawr-del,, kawr-del] /ˈkɔr dɛl,, kɔrˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1955, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1933–44; Nobel Peace Prize 1945.