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Meanings of
peeling
in English
Portuguese
descamação
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Loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales.
shedding
desquamation
Portuguese
descamação
Peeling.
Related terms
damaged
Usage of
peeling
in English
1
But
peeling
them off, as he soon found, was a different matter.
2
The
peeling
wooden slats had been painted green a few years ago.
3
And there the animal sat,
peeling
the wax paper off a lollypop.
4
Boy, you should have heard her discuss her method for
peeling
tomatoes.
5
Unearthing the truth about Ireland's maternity services is like
peeling
an onion.
6
While the girls were
peeling
the bark, the youths kept themselves hidden.
7
Then I typed in a title and applied a spinning,
shadow
-
peeling
effect.
8
A red light flashed on a
peeling
steel pole beside the road.
9
My lips are burning, Ready, and swelled; the skin is
peeling
off.
10
These substrata are employed to avoid the
peeling
off of the image.
11
No pictures were on the walls from which the wall-paper was
peeling
.
12
And the paint was
peeling
on the sunny side of the house.
13
She lived in the loft of a
peeling
Greenwich Village apartment building.
14
Investigative journalists have been busy
peeling
back these layers of offshore secrecy.
15
The false veneer of civilisation is
peeling
off at a great rate.
16
Do this when the skin is at risk of
peeling
back more.
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
peeling
Noun
Singular
peel
Verb
Present
Frequent collocations
peel off
peel potatoes
peel away
peel back
peel an orange
More collocations
Translations for
peeling
Portuguese
descamação
Peeling
through the time
Peeling
across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common