peel

CEFRB1

/piːl/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To remove the outer skin from fruit or vegetables.

  2. 02

    noun

    The outer skin of a fruit or vegetable.

Examples

  • Lend me a knife with which to peel this pear.

  • Will you peel the potatoes for me?

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [pʰiːɫ]

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

  2. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

  3. To remove the skin or outer covering of.

More examples

In context

  • I'll peel an orange for you.

  • I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.

  • I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

To make a fruit salad, you first need to blank the oranges with a knife.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.