🍌 To remove skin 🍊 Fruit skin 🧑‍🎨 To come off 🧥 To undress

to peel

39 7.7

Take off some or all clothes in a noticeable way

verb
/piːl/

NSFW

: desnudarse

Peel off your coat and sit down.

It's really great feeling to then free yourself and peel it all off at the end of the night.

Examples

It's really great feeling to then free yourself and peel it all off at the end of the night.

Harper's BAZAAR
Muttering to himself, he scraped at his face and began peeling off his sticky clothes.

Fiction book (1992)
I was there on the bed and she peeled my boxes down.
Brian walks ahead, and Carrie trails behind him, peeling off her clothes.

Fiction book (1993)
After a long day at the beach, she decided to peel off her wet swimsuit and put on something dry.
He quickly peeled off his jacket when he entered the warm room.
Feeling overheated, she peeled off her sweater to cool down.

Synonyms

to take off

vsto peel

∞ 1.5

To remove clothes or something from your body

is more specifically about removing clothes to attract notice

to undress

vsto peel

NSFW

88 2.0

To take off clothes from yourself or another person

is more about making the action deliberate and attention getting

to strip

vsto peel

NSFW

63 3.4

Take off most or all clothes

is more about doing that to be seen or on purpose

to disrobe

vsto peel

12 6.3

To take off your clothes

is more informal and emphasizes a noticeable deliberate action

to tear off

vsto peel

12 3.0

To pull something off quickly until it rips

is less about force and more about noticeable deliberate removal

to strip down

vsto peel

NSFW

12 5.1

To take off most or all of your clothes

is more about doing that in a noticeable deliberate way

to slip off

vsto peel

11 2.8

To take off quickly and easily, especially clothes or small items

is more about doing the removal to be seen or on purpose

to strip off

vsto peel

NSFW

9 3.7

To remove clothes or a cover completely and quickly

is more about doing this visibly and with intent

to peel off

vsto peel

8 3.4

To take off the outer layer by pulling it

is similar but stresses doing the action in a noticeable way

to unclothe

vsto peel

NSFW

7.4

To remove clothes from a person or a cover from an object

is more specifically about visible, intentional removal of clothes

Antonyms

to dress

∞ 1.0

To put clothes on yourself or someone else

to cover up

314 3.7

To hide something so people cannot see or find out about it

Idioms

to peel the onion

Informal

1 7.6

Carefully look at a problem step by step to find its real cause

Phrasal Verbs

to peel back

11 3.4

Remove a cover or layer by pulling it away slowly

to peel off

9 3.9

To come away in strips because of age or damage

to peel off

8 3.4

To take off the outer layer by pulling it

to peel off

3 4.1

To leave a group and move away in a different direction

Compounds

banana peel

7 1.2

The skin of a banana that is slippery and can make someone fall

orange peel

5 1.4

The outer skin of an orange that adds flavor or becomes candy

lemon peel

1 1.0

Yellow outer skin of a lemon that you grate or cut for cooking

candied citrus peel

3.5

Strips of citrus peel cooked in sugar until sweet and soft

lemon peel

1.9

Thin strips of lemon skin cooked in sugar and used to decorate desserts

grapefruit peel

2.7

Strips of grapefruit skin become a sweet when cooked in sugar and used as a decoration

orange peel fungus

9.0

A bright orange cup-shaped growth on the ground that looks like an orange peel

potato peel

1.7

A thin fried strip of potato skin eaten as a snack

How Dressed

to wear

∞ 1.0

to peel

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39 7.7

to undress

NSFW

88 2.0

to strip

NSFW

63 3.4

Surface Forms

peel infinitive

peeled past

peeled past participle

peeling present participle

peels third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember this use of peel (take off clothes) is to imagine a coat as an outer 'skin' you remove, so to peel off your jacket is to take away that outer layer.