skin
/skɪn/ verb C2- To injure the skin of. · He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
- To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- To high five.
- To apply a skin to (a computer program). · Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
- To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer. · A wound eventually skins over.· Leftover acrylic paint will often skin as it partially dries.
- To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- To strip of money or property; to cheat.
- To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or canvas.
He/she/it skins · Past skinned · Past participle skinned · -ing form skinning
Verb forms
- Base form
- skin
- He/she/it
- skins
- Past
- skinned
- Past participle
- skinned
- -ing form
- skinning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair.
Did you forget that this great man, this hero, this demigod, is attacked with a malady of the skin which worries him to death, prurigo?”
He was clothed all in green, from his head to his feet, and even his skin was of a greenish tint.
“Well, every time I have seen Mercédès come into the city she has been accompanied by a tall, strapping, black-eyed Catalan, with a red complexion, brown skin, and fierce air, whom she calls cousin.”
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