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peel

1  [peel]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.: to peel an orange.
2. to strip (the skin, rind, bark, paint, etc.) from something: to peel paint from a car.
3. Croquet. to cause (another player's ball) to go through a wicket.
–verb (used without object)
4. (of skin, bark, paint, etc.) to come off; become separated.
5. to lose the skin, rind, bark, paint, etc.
6. Informal. to undress.
7. Metallurgy. (of a malleable iron casting) to lose, or tend to lose, the outer layer.
–noun
8. the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
9. Metallurgy. the presence of a brittle outer layer on a malleable iron casting.
—Verb phrase
10. peel off,
a. to remove (the skin, bark, etc.) or be removed: The old skin peeled off.
b. Aeronautics. to leave a flying formation of aircraft with a banking turn, usually from one end of an echelon.
c. Informal. to turn off or leave (a road): We peeled off the highway onto a dirt road.
d. to remove (clothing) in a swift upward or downward motion.
—Idiom
11. keep one's eyes peeled, Informal. to watch closely or carefully; be alert: Keep your eyes peeled for a gas station.
Origin:
bef. 1100; ME pelen, OE pilian to strip, skin < L pilāre to remove hair, deriv. of pilus hair. See pill 2

Related forms:
peel⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. Peel, pare agree in meaning to remove the skin or rind from something. Peel means to pull or strip off the natural external covering or protection of something: to peel an orange, a potato. Pare is used of trimming off chips, flakes, or superficial parts from something, as well as of cutting off the skin or rind: to pare the nails; to pare a potato.
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peel 1   (pēl)   
n.  

  1. The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables.

  2. A chemical peel.

v.   peeled, peel·ing, peels

v.   tr.

  1. To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare.

  2. To strip away; pull off: peeled the label from the jar.

v.   intr.

  1. To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering.

  2. To come off in thin strips or pieces, as bark, skin, or paint: Her sunburned skin began to peel.

  3. Slang To remove one's clothes; undress.

Phrasal Verb(s):
peel off

  1. To leave flight formation in order to land or make a dive. Used of an aircraft.

  2. To leave or depart.


[From Middle English pilen, pelen, to peel, from Old French peler, and Old English pilian (both from Latin pilāre, to deprive of hair, from pilus, hair) and from Old French pillier, to tug, pull, plunder (from Latin pilleum, felt cap).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
peel

  1. in.
    to strip off one's clothing. : I had to peel for my physical examination.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

peel  (v.)
"to strip off," developed from O.E. pilian "to peel," and O.Fr. pillier, both from L. pilare "to strip of hair," from pilus "hair." Probably also infl. by L. pellis "skin, hide." The noun is 1583, from earlier pill, pile (1388), from the verb.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2peel
Function: noun
: the surgical removal of skin imperfections (as blemishes and wrinkles) by the application of a caustic chemical andespecially an acid to the skin called also chemical peel
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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