Word Study
peel off
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb peel off has 5 senses
- peel off(v = verb.contact) Array - peel off the outer layer of something; Array is one way to pare, peel, skin
- peel off(v = verb.body) Array - take off, as with some difficulty; "He peeled off his blood-soaked shirt" is one way to take off
- peel off(v = verb.motion) Array - leave a formation; Array is one way to curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer
- peel off(v = verb.contact) flake, flake off, peel - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off" is one way to break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off
- peel off(v = verb.body) desquamate - peel off in scales; "dry skin desquamates" is one way to exuviate, molt, moult, shed, slough
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THESAURUS
peel off
barnstorm, carry away, come apart, come off, come undone, come unstuck, control, copilot, crack up, disintegrate, drive, fall off, fall to pieces, fly, fly apart, get loose, give way, go to pieces, manipulate, pilot, solo, spring apart, start, unravelROGET THESAURUS
peel off
Disjunction
VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.
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