Lend me a knife with which to peel this pear.
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Peel
/piːl/
Synonyms for "peel" (241 found)
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Closest matches (49)
Strong matches (72)
Related words (120)
nippaleapanepanelparepatinapeel offpeel towerpeelingpelliclephellumpick outpick to piecespillboxplaitplankplateplatingplyplywood
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podpostprunepull apartrasherrathrindriproot outrule outsafeholdsafety glassscalescalpscumset apartset asideshaveshearsheetshellshredshuckskinslabslatslicestamp outstrike offstripstrip offstrong pointstrongholdtabletablettake aparttake offtake outtear aparttear to piecestear to tatterstowertower of strengthtruncateuncoveredundressveneerwaferwardwipe out
Noun(27 words)
Adjective(1 words)
outer parts
Verb(19 words)
Proper Noun(3 words)
peel regionregion of peelregional municipality of peel
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
More specific
10 entriesCollocations
12 entriesbanana peelbanana peelscitrus peelfruit peelorange peelorange peelspeel a potatopeel awaypeel away layerspeel backpeel offpeel the fruit
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
5 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λέπω verb (to remove the outer layer)
Arabic
1 entries- قشر verb (to remove the outer layer)
Armenian
1 entries- պլոկել verb (to remove the outer layer)
Bulgarian
1 entries- беля verb (to remove the outer layer)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᎠᏯᎨᏗᏍᎦ verb (to remove the outer layer)
- ᎦᏁᎦᎵᎭ verb (to remove the outer layer)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 皮爾 /皮尔 name (regional municipality)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 皮爾 /皮尔 name (regional municipality)
Dutch
1 entries- schillen verb (to remove the outer layer)
Finnish
1 entries- kuoria verb (to remove the outer layer)
French
1 entries- Peel name (regional municipality)
Galician
1 entries- estonar verb (to remove the outer layer)
Gujarati
1 entries- છોલવું verb (to remove the outer layer)
Hindi
1 entries- छीलना verb (to remove the outer layer)
Kapampangan
1 entries- talipan verb (to remove the outer layer)
Latin
1 entries- glūbō verb (to remove the outer layer)
Macedonian
2 entries- и́злупи verb (to remove the outer layer)
- лу́пи verb (to remove the outer layer)
Māori
2 entries- pīokaoka verb (to remove the outer layer)
- tīhore verb (to remove the outer layer)
Okinawan
1 entries- 剥ちゅん verb (to remove the outer layer)
Swedish
1 entries- skala verb (to remove the outer layer)
Tagalog
1 entries- talupan verb (to remove the outer layer)
Tamil
2 entries- உரி verb (to remove the outer layer)
- தோலுரி verb (to remove the outer layer)
Thai
1 entries- ปอก verb (to remove the outer layer)
Turkish
1 entries- soymak verb (to remove the outer layer)
Walloon
2 entries- peler verb (to remove the outer layer)
- schaver verb (to remove the outer layer)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
I'll peel an orange for you.
Source: tatoeba (64774)
I can peel an apple.
Source: tatoeba (262241)
Peel the potatoes and carrots.
Source: tatoeba (524054)
Showing 4 of 23 available sentences.