Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Stripped of the skin or outer rind; as, peeled potatoes or onions.
- Barked; abraded: as, “every shoulder was peeled,”
- Bald; shaven; bare.
Wiktionary
- adj. With the outermost layer removed.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of peel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Naked; -- used informally.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used informally) completely unclothed
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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.””
“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.”
“And I also only eat apples with the skin peeled off!”
“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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“Why are they hanging peeled from the laundry rack?”
“Pausing for a moment, he examined a fragment of skin peeled loose by a grimy fingernail.”
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“And there were two empty pill bottles with the labels peeled off that they found in the trash.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peeled’.
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Behold, The Potato
All things potato. History, foodways and potato recipe names, cultivar or variety names, farming, production, diseases and pests, folklore.
spud, tater, starchy, tuberous, <i>Solanum tubero..., <i>Phytophthora i..., potato blight, late blight, blight, Ireland, Irish potato, lumper and 331 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Naked
Words relating to getting naked, being naked, the commonly naked, nakedness (partial or complete), and similar.
denude, strip, stripper, harlot, Cyprian, fancy woman, lady of pleasure, hooker, divest, unfrock, unclothe, disrobe and 115 more...
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Food words that sound sexy
I am taking my lead from the 100 mile diet bloggers in Vancouver, whose guidelines for eating locally conclude with the observation that most things said about food are equally applicable to sex: t...
unctuous, voluptuous, sensuous, salty, lick, comforting, yummy, goddess, scrape, peeled, conch, rise and 12 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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