Definitions for peeling

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peeling peel·ing

Spelling: [pee-ling]

IPA: /ˈpi lɪŋ/

Peeling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in peeling (eegilnp).

Definitions for peeling

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that peels.
2. that which is peeled from something, as a piece of the skin or rind of a fruit.
3. the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
4. Metallurgy. the presence of a brittle outer layer on a malleable iron casting.

Idioms

1. keep one's eyes peeled, Informal. to watch closely or carefully; be alert:

Verb phrases

1. peel off, to remove (the skin, bark, etc.) or be removed: Aeronautics. to leave a flying formation of aircraft with a banking turn, usually from one end of an echelon. Informal. to turn off or leave (a road): to remove (clothing) in a swift upward or downward motion.

verb (used with object)

1. to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.:
2. to strip (the skin, rind, bark, paint, etc.) from something:
3. Croquet. to cause (another player's ball) to go through a wicket.

verb (used without object)

1. (of skin, bark, paint, etc.) to come off; become separated.
2. to lose the skin, rind, bark, paint, etc.
3. Informal. to undress.
4. Metallurgy. (of a malleable iron casting) to lose, or tend to lose, the outer layer.

Origin of peeling

First recorded in 1555-65; peel¹ + -ing¹

Examples for peeling

The journalist is focused on peeling away the layers and getting at the damaging truth.

Paint is peeling from the upper decks and each day new debris falls into the water.

He was very interested in the internal workings and peeling back the layers.

His upturned face was swollen, red, peeling all over the nose and cheeks.

The thing were done as clean as peeling an apple, and as quiet.

Only the peeling paint and the crumbling walls hinted that, for these students, a different reality lay outside.

A good sharp knife will be required for peeling the skin from the neck.

Some of their necks and cheeks were peeling, as if from sunburn.

The degree of this peeling also varies as well as its duration.

Everybody knows it, that feeling of entering a park: peeling off the city streets and into that nourishing sense of calm.