peelverb
uk/piːl/us/piːl/peel verb (FOOD)
B2 [ T ] to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables:
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- Could you peel the carrots?
- I was peeling potatoes in the kitchen when he called.
- Peel and chop the carrots.
- Did you peel the pears?
- Garnish with peeled, seeded and diced tomatoes.
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Removing the skin or seed from fruit & vegetables
- core
- hull
- pare
- pit
- pitted
- seed
- seeded
- shell
- shuck
- skinless
- stone
- stoned
- top
- top and tail idiom
- winnow
peel verb (COVERING)
C2 [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ] If a layer or covering peels, it slowly comes off, and if you peel a layer or covering, you remove it slowly and carefully:
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Removing and extracting
- ablate
- clear the decks idiom
- cream sth/sb off
- descale
- dislodge
- extract
- gouge
- milk
- pull
- pull (sb/sth) out
- pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
- pump
- pump out sth
- removable
- remove
- root
- scratch
- siphon
- syphon
- take sth away
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peel verb (BODY)
[ I ] If you peel, or part of your body or your skin peels, parts of the top layer of your skin comes off because you are burned from being in the sun:
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Skin complaints & blemishes
- boil
- calloused
- capillary telangiectasia
- cradle cap
- crusta lactea
- dandruff
- diaper rash
- heat rash
- hive
- jaundice
- lupus
- pitted
- prickle
- pustule
- rash
- scabby
- sinus
- spotty
- ulcerated
- verruca
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Phrasal verb(s)
peelnoun [ U ]
uk/piːl/us/piːl/the skin of fruit and vegetables, especially after it has been removed:
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
- acorn
- berry
- chaff
- coffee bean
- endosperm
- fruiterer
- grain
- mielie
- nut
- pine cone
- pine nut
- pit
- pith
- seeded
- seeded
- sesame seed
- stalk
- thistledown
- windfall
- zest
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