peeling

Examples

• All

• Peeling occurs afterwards, but by then the window of opportunity for effective treatment may have been missed.

  Academic text (2012)

• After sunburn, she experienced serious peeling of her skin.

• Anyone else really love peeling glue off your hands as a kid?

• There's like a little bit of peeling going on just here.

• Peeling of paint, rising of damp, cracking everywhere.

  The Secret Kingdom (2023)

• Not lots of breakouts, but odd irritation breakouts, peeling skin, dry skin.

• This is like the first intense Accutane dryness peeling I've ever had.

• The old house needed repair due to the peeling paint on the walls.

Synonyms

S

shedding

vspeeling

3 3.4

Losing hair or leaves naturally from animals and plants

is focused on losing thin outer layers specifically rather than general loss

E

exfoliation

vspeeling

2 6.8

Skin or tree bark peels off in thin pieces

is the broader process of losing outer layers on skin or other surfaces

D

desquamation

vspeeling

• Specialized

9.9

Peeling of the outer layer of skin in small flakes

is the general act of losing an outer layer from skin or surfaces

Antonyms

C

covering

8 1.5

Placing something over another thing to protect or hide it

L

layering

4 3.5

Putting things on top of each other to form layers

How Extensive

exfoliation

2 6.8

peeling

1 2.3

sloughing

• Specialized

1 8.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology