to skin
- verb
- /skɪn/
- And earlier, she felt bad, because she made me skin my knee.
- skin a knee
- skin a knuckle
- skin an elbow
Examples
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When you were a little kid, do you remember how often you used to fall down and skin your knee?
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It's inevitable that in the process of learning, you're bound to fall down and skin your knee.
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Or did you skin your knee and it bled?
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If you don't wear 'em, you skin your knees.
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But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees.
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As to its other advantages over a standard bicycle, you have weather protection, lights, visibility on the road, power to get up hills, and you can't fall over and skin your knee.
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Dodge's hand slips and he skins his knuckles.
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Posy stumbles and skins her knee on the heating element, which leans against the door.
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When you were a little kid, do you remember how often you used to fall down and skin your knee?
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You might bump against the wall or the rock, and you may skin your elbow or knee.
Synonyms
To cut or hurt someone's body physically
To injure the skin by rubbing it against something rough
Scrape the skin slightly and make a small wound
Make small cuts or marks on a surface by rubbing it
Antonyms
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
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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 Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skin meaning to scrape or injure comes from the idea of removing the outer 'cover', so when you skin your knee you have rubbed off the top layer of your skin.