0 present 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.
However, exact peeling is computationally infeasible for large complex pedigrees.
That razor is so bad it's peeling my skin!
Since we cannot construe the peeling of a tomato as a conceptually autonomous event, the unaccusative (20b) is unacceptable.
One cannot imagine her buying a "how to" book to improve her egg peeling technique so that she could feel better about herself.
We don't know yet, though investigations are gradually peeling away the alternatives.
The process can be described as one of peeling an onion-layer after layer must be cautiously peeled away.
In many major mechanized factories, machinery such as peeling machines, splint choppers, veneer choppers, and polishing drums already existed.
So visions are immediately conjured up of sunglasses and peeling bodies lying on beaches and that kind of thing.
