peel
Third Person
peels
Present Participle
peeling
Past Tense
peeled
Past Participle
peeled
1
to remove the skin or outer layer of something, such as fruit, etc.
transitive
- Peel the banana before eating it.
- She carefully peeled the apple with a knife.
- Use a potato peeler to peel the skin off the potatoes.
- The chef demonstrated how to peel a mango efficiently.
- Before making the salad, wash and peel the carrots.
2
to remove one's clothes, usually in stages or one piece at a time
- He peeled down to his shorts before jumping into the pool.
- After the workout, they peeled and took a shower.
- She peeled when they got inside the house.
- He peeled and sat by the fire to warm up.
- She peeled and slipped into something more comfortable.
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3
to lose or shed an outer layer, often in strips or small fragments
- The skin on his sunburn began to peel.
- The old wallpaper began to peel at the corners.
- After the rain, the bark of the tree started to peel.
- The sticker's edges began to peel after being left on for too long.
- The paint started to peel off the walls after years of neglect.