0 past simple and past participle of peel
1 to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables:
2 If a layer or covering peels, it slowly comes off, and if you peel a layer or covering, you remove it slowly and carefully:
3 If you peel, or part of your body or your skin peels, parts of the top layer of your skin comes off because you are burned from being in the sun:
My back is peeling.
Could you peel the carrots?
Did you peel the pears?
Fresh tubers can be peeled, chipped, dried and milled into -our.
The carcass was then turned over and a similar blubber blanket peeled from the back.
Some peeled off the wall in shreds, like remnants of old wheat-pasted posters from some long-past, lost political campaign.
