to skin
- verb
- /skɪn/
- We think of ourselves as good providers, but how many can hunt, skin an animal, or grow crops?
- skin the rabbit
- skin a deer
- skin the fillet
I'm going to skin you alive and eat every intestine you own.
- I'm going to skin you alive and eat every intestine you own.
Examples
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Later, while Bones was sleeping, she crept into the kitchen and took from behind the drainboard the knife she'd used to skin the raccoon.
Fiction book (1994) -
Jondalar had already removed the stomach, intestines, and other organs; perhaps they should skin it out right there and cut it into more manageable pieces.
Fiction book (1990) -
"I would like you to skin this sheep".
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The women are ordered to skin the seals.
Fiction book (2001) -
He said he did not have the time to skin and eat it.
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So we skin it and then get the intestines out.
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"Then he taught me how to skin a calf."
Blog text (20) -
"Come on by and I'll show you how to skin a catfish."
Fiction book (1996) -
Skin the pumpkin before feeding it to pets or livestock to remove the pesticides used.
Blog text (17) -
To prepare the dish, you need to skin the tomatoes before adding them to the sauce.
Synonyms
Remove the outer skin from a fruit or vegetable before eating
To remove the hard outer covering from nuts, peas, or seafood
To cut the skin off a person or animal, often for punishment and before cooking
Remove a cover or layer by pulling it away slowly
To take off the outer layer by pulling it
To remove the outer covering from seeds, nuts, or fruit
To cut away the thin outer layer or the edges of things like fruit and wood
To remove the outer covering from things like fruit or labels
To remove the outer skin from fruit or vegetables
To remove the outer layer or covering from something, for example the bark of a tree
To remove the outer skin from fruit or cheese
Idioms
- Offensive
To scold or punish someone severely to show strong anger, not a real action
- Informal
To annoy someone a lot by small things another person does
Completely wet, with water going through your clothes and reaching your skin
- Informal
Cause a strong feeling of fear or disgust with a creepy physical feeling
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A small living part of the skin that makes it and helps protect the body
- Specialized
A piece of healthy skin taken from one body part and placed on damaged skin to help it heal
- US
A crisp shell of potato peel fried or baked and topped with melted cheese and bacon
- Specialized
A medical test that puts a small amount of something on the skin to check for allergy or past infection
- Specialized
Change in the skin's tiny electrical activity when you feel stress or strong emotion
- Specialized
A two-layer man-made material used to replace or cover damaged skin after burns
- Specialized
A change in the skin's electrical signal when someone feels stress or strong emotion
- Specialized
A flexible man-made covering that senses touch and temperature on robot hands and replacement limbs
- Specialized
A test that checks if you have been exposed to tuberculosis bacteria by putting a small medicine under the skin
- Specialized
High-frequency electric current flows mostly near a wire's surface instead of through the whole wire
How Violent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skin as a verb to remove the skin comes from the noun skin ('hide'), so to skin something is to take off its outer cover.