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Word: Peel
Speech Type: Verb
Middle English (in the sense ‘to plunder’): variant of dialect pill, from Latin pilare ‘to strip hair from’, from pilus ‘hair’. The differentiation of peel and pill may have been by association with the French verbs peler ‘to peel’ and piller ‘to pillage’
piːl
remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable)
Short Definition:remove outer covering from
Examples:- she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care
(of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces
Short Definition:lose outer layer in small strips
Examples:- the walls are peeling
Word: Peel
Speech Type: Noun
piːl
the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable
Short Definition:outer covering of fruit or vegetable
Examples:- pieces of potato peel
an act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.
Short Definition:act of exfoliating dead skin
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