peel
peel is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
- noun. A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
- transitive verb. To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
- transitive verb. To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
- transitive verb. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
- intransitive verb. To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
- noun. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
- noun. the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- noun. British politician (1788-1850)
- verb. get undressed
"please don't undress in front of everybody!"
"She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
- verb. come off in flakes or thin small pieces
"The paint in my house is peeling off"
- verb. strip the skin off
"pare apples"
Synonyms
skin, discase, disrobe, strip, uncase, unclothe, undress, flake, pare
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in peel:
Common word forms
peels, peeled, peeler, peeling, peelable
Words from these letters
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