Synonyms of the word peel


PEELCHIP - DISCASE - DISROBE - FLAKE - PARE - POL - POLITICIAN - POLITICO - RIND - SKIN - STRIP - UNCASE - UNCLOTHE - UNDRESS

peel

  • v. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  • v. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  • v. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
  • n. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  • n. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
  • n. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
  • n. (obsolete) A stake.
  • n. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  • n. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  • n. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza…
  • n. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles…
  • n. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
  • n. (Scotland and curling) An equal or match; a draw.
  • n. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
  • v. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
  • v. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.

chip

  • n. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
  • n. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
  • n. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
  • n. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
  • n. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised…
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square…
  • n. (US, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes…
  • n. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to…
  • n. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
  • n. A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
  • n. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
  • n. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
  • n. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent…
  • n. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
  • n. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making…
  • n. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
  • n. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
  • v. (transitive) To break into small pieces.
  • v. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
  • v. (transitive, sports) In association football, specifically, to play a shot on goal by kicking the ball…
  • v. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
  • v. (intransitive) To become chipped.
  • v. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.

discase

  • v. (archaic) To strip; to undress.

disrobe

  • v. (transitive) to undress someone or something.
  • v. (intransitive) to undress oneself.

flake

  • n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
  • n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
  • n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  • n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
  • n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  • v. To break or chip off in a flake.
  • v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  • v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
  • v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
  • n. (Britain) Dogfish.
  • n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
  • n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
  • n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  • n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

pare

  • v. (transitive) to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
  • v. (transitive, often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting…
  • v. to trim the hoof of a horse.

pol

  • n. (informal) A politician.

politician

  • n. One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
  • n. Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.
  • n. A politically active or interested person.
  • n. A sly or ingratiating person.

politico

  • n. (colloquial, often derogatory) A politician.

rind

  • n. tree bark.
  • n. A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.
  • n. (figuratively, uncountable, rare, usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal…
  • v. (transitive) To remove the rind from.
  • n. An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.

skin

  • n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
  • n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  • n. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  • n. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
  • n. (countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical…
  • n. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
  • n. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
  • n. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to…
  • n. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in…
  • n. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
  • n. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
  • n. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
  • n. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom…
  • v. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  • v. (colloquial) To high five.
  • v. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
  • v. (Britain, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
  • v. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
  • v. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  • v. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own,…
  • v. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

strip

  • n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
  • n. A comic strip.
  • n. A landing strip.
  • n. A strip steak.
  • n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  • n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  • n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  • n. Striptease.
  • n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  • n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
  • v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
  • v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
  • v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  • v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
  • v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  • v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
  • v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
  • v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
  • v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
  • v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  • v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  • v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  • v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
  • v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

uncase

  • v. (transitive) To take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To strip; to flay.
  • v. (transitive, military) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

unclothe

  • v. (transitive) To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.

undress

  • v. (reflexive) To remove one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To remove one’s clothing.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the clothing of (someone).
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To strip of something.
  • v. To take the dressing, or covering, from.
  • n. The state of having few or no clothes on.
  • n. A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

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