to remove the surface of (a bone, the skin, etc.) in scales or laminae.
to throw off scales or flakes; peel off in thin fragments The bark of some trees exfoliates.
Geology.
to split or swell into a scaly aggregate, as certain minerals when heated.
to separate into rudely concentric layers or sheets, as certain rocks during weathering.
Medicine/Medical.
to separate and come off in scales, as scaling skin or any structure separating in flakes.
(tr)
to wash (a part of the body) with a granular cosmetic preparation in order to remove dead cells from the skin's surface
Peel [ pil ]
Peel or Peeling may refer to:
verb (used with object)
to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc. to peel an orange.
to strip (the skin, rind, bark, paint, etc.) from something to peel paint from a car.
Croquet.
to cause (another player's ball) to go through a wicket.
(of skin, bark, paint, etc.) to come off; become separated.
to lose the skin, rind, bark, paint, etc.
to undress.
Metallurgy.
(of a malleable iron casting) to lose, or tend to lose, the outer layer.
Synonyms
desquamate
doff
shed
flake off
scale off
bark
cover
epicarp
exocarp
husk
peeling
pellicle
rind
shell
shuck
Word used in Sentences
1. Exfoliate your back at least once a week.
2. The bark of some trees exfoliates.
3. Face masks work by means of a mild exfoliating action, stripping off surface dead-skin cells.
4. They involve the same exfoliating, cleansing, toning and moisturising routines as facials.
5. Salt grains - Gently exfoliate the skin.
6. What it can do: Exfoliate skin.
7. It will exfoliate the dead skin.
8. Successive section sees endoderm has exfoliate phenomenon.
9. Exfoliate: Once a week, apply petroleum jelly to your lips and leave it on for five minutes. Dip a toothbrush in hot water and gently brush your lips. Dead skin will be history!
10. Efficacy : In - depth clean skin, exfoliate cuticle, body fitness, relieve fatigue, vitality glowing.
1. The paint is starting to peel off.
2. Scales of skin peel off after scarlet fever.
3. Peel and dice the potatoes.
4. Cut the orange peel into fine shreds.
5. Would you peel me an orange?
6. Peel the pears and remove the cores.
7. Peel, core and chop the apples.
8. Please peel an apple for me.
9. Peel the carrots and cut them into shreds.
10. Peel and grate the potatoes.
Word Origin
Exfoliate
First recorded in 1605–15; from Late Latin exfoliātus, past participle of exfoliāre “to strip off leaves”; see origin at ex-1, foliate
Peel
First recorded before 1100; Middle English pilen, pillen, pilien “to strip off, remove,” Old English pilian “to strip, skin” (unrecorded), or Old French pillier, peler, from Latin pilāre “to remove hair, pluck, scalp,” derivative of pilus “hair”; see pill2