to skin
- verb
- /skɪn/
Examples
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It does not skin bark off nearby trees, which allows fungus to rot them, as happens often with large harvesting machines.
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In preparation for dinner, he learned how to skin a rabbit to make a delicious stew.
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The chef demonstrated how to skin tomatoes for the sauce by removing their tough outer layer.
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After successfully hunting the deer, the group gathered to skin it before processing the meat.
Synonyms
To take the bark off a tree or log
To remove the outer layer or covering from something, for example the bark of a tree
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
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A small living part of the skin that makes it and helps protect the body
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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
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A medical test that puts a small amount of something on the skin to check for allergy or past infection
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Change in the skin's tiny electrical activity when you feel stress or strong emotion
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A two-layer man-made material used to replace or cover damaged skin after burns
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A change in the skin's electrical signal when someone feels stress or strong emotion
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A flexible man-made covering that senses touch and temperature on robot hands and replacement limbs
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A test that checks if you have been exposed to tuberculosis bacteria by putting a small medicine under the skin
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High-frequency electric current flows mostly near a wire's surface instead of through the whole wire
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skin meaning to remove the bark of a tree follows the same idea of taking off an outer 'cover', just like removing an animal's skin.