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Definition of Peel off
1. Verb. Peel off the outer layer of something.
2. Verb. Take off, as with some difficulty. "He peeled off his blood-soaked shirt"
3. Verb. Leave a formation.
Generic synonyms: Curve, Cut, Sheer, Slew, Slue, Swerve, Trend, Veer
4. Verb. Come off in flakes or thin small pieces. "The paint in my house is peeling off"
Generic synonyms: Break Away, Break Off, Chip, Chip Off, Come Off
Derivative terms: Flake, Peeling
5. Verb. Peel off in scales. "Dry skin desquamates"
Generic synonyms: Exuviate, Molt, Moult, Shed, Slough
Derivative terms: Desquamation
Definition of Peel off
1. Verb. (intransitive) To separate off from the main body, to move off to one side; as in troop movements on a parade ground or an organized retreat, or columns in a procession. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To remove (an outer layer or covering, such as clothing). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peel Off
Literary usage of Peel off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1858)
"The skin is thick, and does not peel off easily. When dug in the spring and baked
or roasted, the flesh is mealy and pleasantly flavored, though sometimes a ..."
2. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"to peel off, to flay, to skin ; (c.) to rasp, to file, to rub off ; a bruise ;
a scratch or break in the skin ; (d.) to notch the end of a spear, ..."
3. The Antiquarian (1871)
"... for it licks its way to the surface and damps the walls, so that the newly
renovated fresco paintings in the Chapter House peel off by the square yard, ..."
4. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"tion? to collodion was found to bo its liability to crack, and consequently to
peel off; this, however, may in a great degree, if not altogether, ..."
5. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"scrape, peel (as the skin off of breadfruit). peel off ... remove (as of clothes),
take away (from a place), swing out (of arms), remove or peel off (of ..."
6. Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of by [Boosey, Thomas], William Pickering (1835)
"... from the head to the tail, and the fish is then replaced on the fire; when
sufficiently broiled, the skin and scales will peel ofF, and leave the fish ..."
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