peel off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
peel off the outer layer of something
Types & categories
Sense 2 verb
take off, as with some difficulty
He peeled off his blood-soaked shirt
Types & categories
- take off hypernym
Sense 3 verb
leave a formation
Types & categories
- curve hypernym
Related & opposite
- air travel domain topic
Sense 4 verb
come off in flakes or thin small pieces
The paint in my house is peeling off
Types & categories
- chip hypernym
Related & opposite
- chip derivation
- desquamation derivation
Sense 5 verb
peel off in scales
dry skin desquamates
Types & categories
- slough hypernym
Related & opposite
- desquamation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | peel |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | exfoliate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | take off |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | air travel |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | curve |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | chip |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | desquamation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | chip |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | desquamation |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | slough |