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Meanings of peel off in English

Portuguese
descamar-se
Catalan
descamar-se
Spanish
descamar

Peel off in scales.

descamar-se

Come off in flakes or thin small pieces.

Synonyms
Examples for "desquamate"
Examples for "desquamate"
1
About the eighth day the rash begins to scale or desquamate.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) / A Personal Guide to the ...
2
It's actually a hardened slime made up from various inorganic salts, desquamated cells and leucocytes.
Something in the water
3
They desquamated in great clots of translucent matter.
Perdido Street Station
4
Paint and plaster bubbled, desquamating grotesquely, as the massive houses became homes for more and more of New Crobuzon's swelling population.
Perdido Street Station
5
E) Congestion in the small intestinal wall and intestinal villi; desquamated epithelial cells from the intestinal villus (original magnification 100).
Reuters
Usage of peel off in English
1
It took only a second to peel off her jeans and sweater.
Chocolate chip cookie murder
2
I don't think you just peel off the network and sell it.
Reuters
3
Wash them clean, peel off the skin, and cut off the stalks.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
4
Remove from the oven, leave to cool slightly, peel off the skin.
The South African
5
I was sure Binny would peel off when I turned onto Franklin.
Bones Are Forever
6
We can easily peel off all the sheets we need, I guess.
The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize
7
Four peel off and vanish round the other side of the slope.
The Irish Times
8
You can't peel off the unpleasant parts and call them something else.
Shade's children
9
Even more so once you peel off the unsightly Energy Star sticker.
Wired
10
Invert onto a wire rack to cool and peel off the parchment.
Cooking for friends
11
Unmold onto a clean cutting board and peel off the plastic wrap.
Cooking for friends
12
But at night they peel off their skin and go hunting kids.
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
13
I peel off my shoes and socks and sit at its edge.
WATER FOR ELEPHANT
14
I peel off my mother's blue dress and take a hot shower.
The Hunger Games
15
Crack and peel off the skins, then cut each egg in half.
Cooking for friends
16
Boil the tongue in salted water till the outer skin will peel off.
The Belgian Cookbook
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Translations for peel off
Portuguese
descamar-se
Peel off through the time
Peel off across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common