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

1. noun. The external membranous integument of an animal.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
4. noun. The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
5. noun. That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
6. noun. 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.
7. transitive verb. To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
8. transitive verb. To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
9. transitive verb. To strip of money or property; to cheat.
10. intransitive verb. To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
11. intransitive 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.
12. noun. body covering of a living animal

    Synonyms: hide, pelt

13. noun. an outer surface (usually thin)

    "the skin of an airplane"

14. noun. a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
15. noun. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

    "your skin is the largest organ of your body"

    Synonyms: cutis, tegument

16. noun. the rind of a fruit or vegetable

    Synonyms: peel

17. noun. a person's skin regarded as their life

    "he tried to save his skin"

18. verb. strip the skin off

    "pare apples"

    Synonyms: pare, peel

19. verb. remove the bark of a tree

    Synonyms: bark

20. verb. bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of

    "The boy skinned his knee when he fell"

    Synonyms: scrape

21. verb. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

    Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, sputter, struggle

Synonyms

hide, pelt, cutis, tegument, peel, pare, bark, scrape, clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, sputter, struggle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in skin:

inks, kins, sink

Common word forms

skins, skinful, skinned, skinner, skinless, skinning

Words from these letters

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