Dictionary Entry
skin
skin is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The external membranous integument of an animal. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 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 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The external membranous integument of an animal.
- 2noun
The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
- 3noun
A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
- 4noun
The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
- 5noun
That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- 6noun
The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- 7transitive verb
To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
- 8transitive verb
To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- 9transitive verb
To strip of money or property; to cheat.
- 10intransitive verb
To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
- 11intransitive verb
To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
- 12noun
body covering of a living animal
- 13noun
an outer surface (usually thin)
"the skin of an airplane"
- 14noun
a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
- 15noun
a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
"your skin is the largest organ of your body"
- 16noun
the rind of a fruit or vegetable
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- 17noun
a person's skin regarded as their life
"he tried to save his skin"
- 18verb
strip the skin off
"pare apples"
- 19verb
remove the bark of a tree
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- 20verb
bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
"The boy skinned his knee when he fell"
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- 21verb
climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
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