OXFORD 9000
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📚 verb • entry_id 14768

peel

/piːl/
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
pelar
To remove the skin or outer covering of.
I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
Phrases
keep one's eyeballs peeledkeep one's eyes peeledoverpeelpeel awaypeel back the onionpeel me a grapepeel offpeel outpeel rubberpeel the onionpeel-and-sealpeelabilitypeelablepeelerpeeliepeeling skin syndromepeeloutpeelyrepeelthere's more than one way to peel an orangeunpeel
Word forms
peeledpeeledpeelingpeels