Synonyms for skin
skɪnskin

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1. skin, tegument, cutisnoun

   a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

   "your skin is the largest organ of your body"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel

2. skinnoun

   an outer surface (usually thin)

   "the skin of an airplane"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel

3. hide, pelt, skinnoun

   body covering of a living animal

   Synonyms:
   peel, pelt, tegument, cutis, hide, fell, fur

4. skinnoun

   a person's skin regarded as their life

   "he tried to save his skin"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel

5. peel, skinnoun

   the rind of a fruit or vegetable

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel

6. skinverb

   a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel

7. clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputterverb

   climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

   Synonyms:
   fight, beat, contend, shin, splutter, jumble, scramble, throw together, struggle, bark, spit out, sputter, pare, scrape, peel, clamber, shinny

8. skin, scrapeverb

   bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of

   "The boy skinned his knee when he fell"

   Synonyms:
   scrape up, pare, peel, shin, scramble, struggle, bark, sputter, come up, scratch, kowtow, grate, scrape, genuflect, clamber, scratch up, shinny

9. bark, skinverb

   remove the bark of a tree

   Synonyms:
   scramble, struggle, peel, clamber, pare, shin, shinny, sputter, scrape, bark

10. skin, peel, pareverb

    strip the skin off

    "pare apples"

    Synonyms:
    undress, flake off, scramble, pare down, shin, flake, struggle, unclothe, bark, peel off, sputter, pare, trim, uncase, whittle, strip down, disrobe, strip, scrape, discase, peel, clamber, shinny

Matched Categories

1. • Climb
   • Injure
   • Life
   • Rind
   • Strip
   • Surface

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. skinnoun

   Synonyms:
   hide, pelt, derm, CUTIS

2. skinnoun

   Synonyms:
   husk, hull, peel, rind

3. skinverb

   Synonyms:
   flay, excoriate

4. skinverb

   Synonyms:
   peel, pare

5. skinverb

   Synonyms:
   cover with a skin or crust

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. skinnoun

   Synonyms:
   integument, tegument, derm, epidermis, cuticle, scarfskin, true skin, dermis, derma, cutis, membrane, epithelium, ecteron, enderon, ecderon, pelt, pell, pelage, peltry, hide, kip, husk, hull, glume, (of fruit) peel, peeling, rind, paring, epicarp, pellicle, film, episperm, testa, tegmen, slough, exuviae (cast-off-skin), parchment, vellum

   Antonyms:
   pulp, flesh

   Associated words:
   dermatology, dermatologist, dermic, dermatic, dermal, cutaneous, dermatitis, dermatography, dermatoid, smegma, caul, dermatopathic, dermoplastic, dermoplasty, hypodermic, subcutaneous, dermatopathy, exuviate, exuviation, desquamate, desquamation, slough, dermatophyte, dermostosis, cuticular, epidermal, apellous, abrasion, emphractic, excoriation

2. skinverb

   Synonyms:
   flay, excoriate, pare, peel, (Slang) cheat, defraud, fleece

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "skin":

   cutaneous, dermal, epidermis, complexion, leather, shovel, ass, pelt, fur, hide, flogging, mask, flesh, skins, whipping, hag, neck, peel, skinned, pelts, floozy, kill

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How to use skin in a sentence?

1. Brenda Cartmel:

   The more frequent the exposure, the greater the risk of skin cancer.

2. Stephen Vysocky:

   The one thing that I don't like is, because I've lost so much weight, I have a lot of loose skin, i'm trying to get that removed because there is a lot of complications now with my loose skin. And it also adds extra dead weight, pretty much, and there's no way I could lose that, no matter how hard I try.

3. Brenda Cartmel:

   At gyms and apartment complexes use of the tanning facilities may be unsupervised, when this is the case users could use the tanning facilities much more frequently than at a tanning salon, where use is generally restricted to twice a week, the more frequent the exposure, the greater the risk of skin cancer.

4. Riccardo Munda:

   What led to this situation is that many family doctors didn't visit their patients for weeks, and I can't blame them, because that's how they saved their own skin.

5. Nisha Jhalani:

   LED technology can be affected by variables such as how loosely or tightly the tracker is worn, the user's skin tone or any other interference between the sensor and the skin. It can also become inaccurate with motion, which is why it doesn't fare as well as ECG with exercise.