Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
- 2noun
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.
- 3transitive verb
To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
- 6intransitive 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.
- 7noun
The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
- 8noun
the rind of a fruit or vegetable
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- 9noun
British politician (1788-1850)
- 10verb
get undressed
"please don't undress in front of everybody!"
"She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
- 11verb
come off in flakes or thin small pieces
"The paint in my house is peeling off"
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- 12verb
strip the skin off
"pare apples"
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