Exfoliate vs. Peel
Exfoliateverb
To remove the leaves from a plant.
Exfoliateverb
To remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.
Exfoliateverb
(mineralogy) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales as the result of heat or decomposition.
Exfoliateverb
To separate and come off in scales or laminæ, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
Exfoliateverb
To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
Exfoliateverb
To remove scales, laminæ, or splinters from the surface of.
Exfoliateverb
spread by opening the leaves of
Exfoliateverb
cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
Exfoliateverb
remove the surface, in scales or laminae
Exfoliateverb
come off in a very thin piece
Exfoliateverb
grow by producing or unfolding leaves;
Peelverb
(transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
Peelverb
(transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
Peelverb
(intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
Peelverb
(intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
Peelverb
(intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
Peelverb
(curling) To play a peel shot.
Peelverb
(croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
Peelverb
misspelling of peal|nodot=1: to sound loudly.
Peelverb
To plunder; to pillage, rob.
Peelnoun
The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
Peelnoun
The action of peeling away from a formation.
Peelnoun
(countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
Peelnoun
(obsolete) A stake.
Peelnoun
(obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
Peelnoun
(archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Peelnoun
A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
Peelnoun
A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
Peelnoun
The blade of an oar.
Peelnoun
An equal or match; a draw.
Peelnoun
(curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
Peelnoun
A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Peelnoun
A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
Peelnoun
The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Peelverb
To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
Peelverb
To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
Peelverb
To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
Peelverb
To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; - often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
Peelverb
To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down .
Peelnoun
the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)
Peelnoun
British politician (1788-1850)
Peelnoun
the rind of a fruit or vegetable
Peelverb
strip the skin off;
Peelverb
come off in flakes or thin small pieces;
Peelverb
get undressed;
Peelverb
remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit, vegetable, or prawn)
Peelverb
remove (the outer covering or skin) from a fruit or vegetable
Peelverb
(of a fruit or vegetable) have a skin that can be removed
Peelverb
remove a thin outer covering or part
Peelverb
remove an item of clothing
Peelverb
(of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces
Peelverb
(of an outer layer) come off in strips or small pieces
Peelverb
send (another player's ball) through a hoop
Peelnoun
the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable
Peelnoun
an act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.
Peelnoun
a flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven
Peelnoun
a small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland.
