Synonyms for peeling
ˈpi lɪŋpeel·ing

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1. desquamation, peeling, sheddingnoun

   loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales

   Synonyms:
   shedding, desquamation, sloughing

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1. List of paraphrases for "peeling":

   pelage

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How to use peeling in a sentence?

1. Prakesh Shah:

   At some stage, many of us would have felt that, ‘is this the right thing to do for these babies?’ These babies were in significant pain, distress, and their skin was peeling off. Even removing surgical tape would mean that their skin would peel off.

2. Alexis Temkin:

   I would definitely recommend peeling and washing thoroughly with water, steer away from detergents or other advertised items. Rinsing with water will reduce pesticide levels.

3. Khalid El Bakraoui:

   You can start basically peeling back the onion, hopefully what it will do is it will speed up the process by which they can actually look at all of the different elements of this and possibly roll up some more suspects.

4. George Lasry:

   Breaking the code was not a eureka moment — it took quite a while, each time peeling another layer of the ‘onion,’.

5. John Rogers:

   Premature babies, especially those at gestational ages less than 30 weeks, have skin that is highly underdeveloped, it's very common that these babies receive injury to the skin when peeling away the tapes.