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- DictionaryPeel/pēl/
verb
- 1. remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable): "she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care"
- 2. (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces: "the walls are peeling"
noun
- 1. the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable.
1. : the skin or rind of a fruit or vegetable. banana/lemon/potato peels. 2. : a thin layer of organic material that is embedded in a film of collodion and stripped from the surface of an object (such as a plant fossil) for microscopic study. 3. : chemical peel. peel.
Peel definition: to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.. See examples of PEEL used in a sentence.
PEEL definition: 1. to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables: 2. If a layer or covering peels, it slowly comes…. Learn more.
A peel is the covering of a fruit or vegetable. Some peels are thick and easy to remove, like an orange peel, while others might be more stubborn, like the thin peel on a potato. When you remove an apple peel or the peel of an eggplant, you peel it.
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.
peel. ( piːl) vb. 1. ( tr) to remove (the skin, rind, outer covering, etc) of (a fruit, egg, etc) 2. ( intr) (of paint, etc) to be removed from a surface, esp through weathering. 3. ( intr) (of a surface) to lose its outer covering of paint, etc esp through weathering.
PEEL definition: 1. to remove the skin of fruit or vegetables: 2. If you peel something from a surface, you remove…. Learn more.
