| VERB | contact | peel, skin, pare | strip the skin off |
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| contact | peel, peel off, flake off, flake | come off in flakes or thin small pieces | |
| body | peel, undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe | get undressed | |
| NOUN | person | Peel, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel | British politician (1788-1850) |
| food | peel, skin | the rind of a fruit or vegetable |
| Sounds | piy'l | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abele ... zeal: 65 rhymes with iyl... | |
| Meaning | British politician (1788-1850). | |
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| Synonyms | Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel | |
| Instance of | politician, politico, pol, political leader | A person active in party politics |
| Spanish | Robert Peel | |
| Catalan | Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel | |
| Meaning | The rind of a fruit or vegetable. | |
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| Synonym | skin | |
| Part of | edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
| Narrower | banana peel, banana skin | The skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded) |
| jacket | The outer skin of a potato | |
| lemon peel, lemon rind | The rind of a lemon | |
| orange peel, orange rind | The rind of an orange | |
| Broader | rind | The natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating) |
| Spanish | corteza, piel | |
| Catalan | pell, pellofa | |
| Verbs | peel | strip the skin off |
| Meaning | strip the skin off. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | The chefs peel the vegetables | |
| Synonyms | skin, pare | |
| Narrower | flay | strip the skin off |
| peel off | peel off the outer layer of something | |
| Broader | strip | Remove the surface from |
| Spanish | mondar, pelar | |
| Catalan | pelar | |
| Nouns | peel | the rind of a fruit or vegetable |
| peeler | a device for peeling vegetables or fruits | |
| peeler | a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables | |
| Meaning | come off in flakes or thin small pieces. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "The paint in my house is peeling off" | |
| Synonyms | peel off, flake off, flake | |
| Broader | chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off | break off (a piece from a whole) |
| Spanish | desconcharse | |
| Nouns | peeling | loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales |
| Meaning | Get undressed. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe | |
| Narrower | take off | Remove clothes |
| Broader | take off | take away or remove |
| Opposite | dress, get dressed | Put on clothes |
| dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel | Provide with clothes or put clothes on | |
| Similar to | strip, undress, divest, disinvest | Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes |
| Spanish | desnudar, despojar, desvestir | |
| Catalan | despullar-se, despullar, desvestir-se, desvestir | |
| Nouns | peeler | a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music |
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