PEELING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peeling mean? 

• PEELING (noun)
  The noun PEELING has 1 sense:

1. loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales

  Familiarity information: PEELING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEELING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

desquamation; peeling; shedding

Hypernyms ("peeling" is a kind of...):

organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)

Derivation:

peel (come off in flakes or thin small pieces)

 Context examples 

One winter’s day the wife stood under the tree to peel some apples, and as she was peeling them, she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It may be used on certain wounds and burns, and to treat the redness, burning, and peeling caused by radiation therapy.

(Biafine cream, NCI Dictionary)

Issue associated with peeling of composite materials.

(Delamination, Food and Drug Administration)

A peeling off or loss of epidermis, as in sunburn, postscarlatinal peeling, or toxic epidermal necrolysis.

(Peeling, NCI Thesaurus)

“Even to the peeling of potatoes and the washing of dishes,” I answered, “to say nothing to wringing their necks out of very fellowship.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There were no carpets and no signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in green, unhealthy blotches.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Due to its irritant effect, benzoyl peroxide increases turnover rate of epithelial cells, thereby peeling the skin and promoting the resolution of comedones.

(Benzoyl Peroxide, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Micawber, with a random but expressive flourish of his knife, signified that these performances might be expected to take place after he was no more; then resumed his peeling with a desperate air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Developed himself by peeling potatoes and washing dishes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I could not but observe that he had been peeling the lemons with his own clasp-knife, which, as became the knife of a practical settler, was about a foot long; and which he wiped, not wholly without ostentation, on the sleeve of his coat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)