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.
The seeds were removed and, after the waxy aril was peeled off, were briefly surfacesterilized in 1% sodium hypochlorite.
How can it be peeled, unfolded, exteriorized, without being destroyed?
The cloth was left until it dried, and was ready to be peeled off the board.
The sclera and pigment epithelium were peeled away from the retina in order to isolate it.
We peeled away the pulp to expose the hard endocarp, and discarded all seeds with insect holes or other damage, such as fungus infection.
After 4 min, papain-treated tissue was rinsed and the retina was manually peeled out of the eyecup, separating the retina from the pigment epithelium.
We have peeled away several layers of inhibition and ignorance but other layers remain.
The process can be described as one of peeling an onion-layer after layer must be cautiously peeled away.