Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stripped of the skin or outer rind; as, peeled potatoes or onions.
- Barked; abraded: as, “every shoulder was peeled,”
- Bald; shaven; bare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Naked; -- used informally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective With the outermost layer removed.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
peel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used informally) completely unclothed
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Examples
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A vehicle search was conducted after Officer David Curley said he saw a prescription bottle with the label peeled off, containing three pills, inside the truck.
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I imagined all of the typical scenarios; several sets of young hands passing around a homemade pipe or a gold bottle of prescription pills, the label peeled off and discarded.
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And I also only eat apples with the skin peeled off!
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Where the skin peeled back, black carbon fibre mesh showed through from beneath flesh veneer.
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The idea for the debonding layer, says an ITRI spokeswoman, came from watching cooks prepare paper-thin Taiwanese pancakes, which can be easily peeled from a pan at high temperatures.
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Where the skin peeled back, black carbon fibre mesh showed through from beneath flesh veneer.
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He was pulled behind a galloping horse with a noose around his neck until the skin peeled off, “like a rabbit ready for the skillet.”
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Where the skin peeled back, black carbon fibre mesh showed through from beneath flesh veneer.
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He was pulled behind a galloping horse with a noose around his neck until the skin peeled off, “like a rabbit ready for the skillet.”
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The loot includes a manufacturer's label peeled from the aquarium in which Jeff Koons floated his famous basketballs in 1985.
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