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Synonyms for skin
skɪnskin

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Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 1 vote

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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

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How to use skin in a sentence?

  1. Sheila Graham:

    You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

  2. Anne Chapas:

    I recommend that everyone takes a look at their own skin once a month, and if they see anything of concern they should definitely talk to a doctor about it.

  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. Nancy Mace:

    These things happen so often, and they effect every family and every kind of community, no matter the color of your skin or the amount of money you make, it's really past time that the federal government just get out of the way, provide a tax, tax it and regulate it, and let states legally do what they've already been doing for almost two and a half decades.

  5. Paradi Mirmirani:

    Sulfates have been shown to be irritating to eyes and skin in some studies, but just because a shampoo is sulfate-free, that doesn’t mean it’s less likely to irritate: Many sulfate-free shampoos that still lather have other detergents in them.


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