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peel
verb [I/T] (REMOVE COVERING) /pil/Definition
› to remove a covering slowly and carefully, or of a covering to come off: [T always + adv/prep] We peeled the wallpaper off the walls. [I] My back is peeling from that sunburn I got last weekend. › If you peel off clothing, you take it off: [M] Ramon peeled his sweaty shirt off and hung it on a chair to dry.
(Definition of peel verb (REMOVE COVERING) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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