peel
/piːl/
verb
- To remove the outer skin or rind from a fruit or vegetable.
- Please peel the potatoes before boiling them.
- He carefully peeled the apple with a small knife.
- She peeled an orange and shared it with her friend.
- To come off in thin strips or layers, as of skin, paint, or wallpaper.
- The paint on the old fence is starting to peel.
- After a sunburn, my skin began to peel.
- The wallpaper in the bathroom is peeling because of the humidity.
- To remove a covering or layer from something.
- He peeled the sticker off his laptop.
- The mechanic peeled the old tape from the wire.
- She peeled the wrapping paper off the gift carefully.