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Synonyms for peel
pilpeel

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Peel, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peelnoun

    British politician (1788-1850)

    Synonyms:
    skin

  2. peel, skinverb

    the rind of a fruit or vegetable

    Synonyms:
    pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, skin

  3. skin, peel, pareverb

    strip the skin off

    "pare apples"

    Synonyms:
    undress, flake off, scramble, pare down, shin, flake, struggle, unclothe, bark, peel off, sputter, pare, trim, uncase, whittle, strip down, disrobe, strip, scrape, skin, discase, clamber, shinny

  4. peel off, peel, flake off, flakeverb

    come off in flakes or thin small pieces

    "The paint in my house is peeling off"

    Synonyms:
    flake, undress, unclothe, flake off, disrobe, desquamate, discase, strip, peel off, uncase, pare, skin, strip down

  5. undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peelverb

    get undressed

    "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"

    Synonyms:
    strip down, flake off, clean, discase, leach, foray, divest, pillage, dismantle, strip, unclothe, undress, peel off, reave, rifle, pare, denude, uncase, skin, disrobe, flake, ransack, loot, deprive, plunder, despoil, bare, denudate, disinvest

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. peelverb

    Synonyms:
    pare (by stripping or pulling), hull, shell

  2. peelverb

    Synonyms:
    exfoliate, come off (as skin or rind), peel off, shell off

  3. peelnoun

    Synonyms:
    rind, skin

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. peelnoun

    Synonyms:
    rind, skin

    Antonyms:
    pulp

  2. peelverb

    Synonyms:
    pare, decorticate

    Antonyms:
    pulp

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "peel":

    bark, dept, skin

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How to use peel in a sentence?

  1. Danny DeVito:

    You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

  2. Brian Gibbons:

    We do think that we'll see another leg down from here, but when you peel back the onion, we don't think defaults rates will be as bad as some people think, yes, there are about 20-25 names that could be in danger, but we think many of them should be able to muddle through over the next year.

  3. Jay Hauck:

    Pro-ban supports would like to make it cut and dry, but it’s a very complicated issue, it’s an onion, and you have to peel away the layers.

  4. Michael Jordan:

    But you have to realize that the reason why I was treating Michael Jordan like that is because I needed Michael Jordan to be tough in the playoffs and were facing the Indianas and Miamis and New Yorks in the Eastern Conference. Michael Jordan needed to be tough and I needed to know that I could count on Michael Jordan. And those are the kind of things where people see me acting the way I acted in practice, theyre not going to understand it. I said to Michael Jordan, Thats great because this is an opportunity. We have 10 hours here to peel back the onion and have you articulate all the things you just articulated to me. EX-NBA CHAMPION RECALLS RUBBING MICHAEL JORDAN FOR GOOD LUCK BEFORE GAME : I THOUGHT IT WAS AWKWARD Jordan said in one of the episodes that winning has a price, according to The Athletic. He said if a certain standard wasnt being met by one of his teammates, he would step in and explain to the person what was going on And leadership has a price, Michael Jordan reportedly says. So I pulled people along when they didnt want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didnt want to be challenged. And I earned that right because my teammates who came after me didnt endure all the things that I endured. Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game. And I wasnt going to take any less. Now, if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. You ask all my teammates. The one thing about Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan never asked me to do something that Michael Jordan didnt fking do. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Michael Jordan said people may perceive Michael Jordan as a tyrant but thats because nobody has had as much sustainable success as Michael Jordan did. Look, I dont have to do this.

  5. Jessica Vaughan:

    There are a lot of layers to peel off.


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