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Adjective peeling has 1 sense
- peeling - having the paint loose and peeling away; "a dilapidated house with peeling paint"; "peeling row houses"
Antonym: undamaged (indirect, via damaged)
Noun peeling has 1 sense
- desquamation, peeling, shedding - loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
--1 is a kind of organic phenomenon
Verb peel has 3 senses
- skin, peel, pare - strip the skin off; "pare apples"
--1 is one way to strip
Sample sentence:
The chefs peel the vegetables
- peel off, peel, flake off, flake - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
--2 is one way to chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel - get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
--3 is one way to take off
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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