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skinned adjective [ skɪnd ]

• having a skin of a specified type.
• "a smooth-skinned complexion"

skin verb

• remove the skin from (an animal or a fruit or vegetable).
• "scald and skin the tomatoes"
Similar: peel, pare, hull, decorticate,
• take money from or swindle (someone).
• "I ain't no dummy, and I know when I'm being skinned"
• (of a wound) form new skin.
• "the hole in his skull skinned over"
• (of a player) take the ball past (a defender) with ease.
• "Kanchelskis would have skinned him"
• make a cannabis cigarette.
• "we had a few beers and then we skinned up"
Origin: late Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn ; related to Dutch schinden ‘flay, peel’ and German schinden .


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