peel away/off
peel
noun[ U ]
uk /piːl/ us /piːl/
the skin of fruit and vegetables, especially after it has been removed: （尤指水果和蔬菜被削掉的）外皮
apple peel苹果皮
potato peel土豆皮
The dessert was decorated with strips of lemon peel.甜点上装饰了些切成丝状的柠檬皮。
What shall I do with the peel?这些皮我该如何处理？
 
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peel | American Dictionary

peel
verb
us/pil/

peelverb (REMOVE VEGETABLE/FRUIT SKIN)

[ T ]
to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables:
Peel, core, and chop the apples.

peelverb (REMOVE COVERING)

[ I/T ]
to remove a covering slowly and carefully, or of a covering to come off:
[ Talways+ adv/prep ]We peeled the wallpaper off the walls.
[ I ]My back is peeling from that sunburn I got last weekend.
[ I/T ]
If you peel off clothing, you take it off:
[ M ]Ramon peeled his sweaty shirt off and hung it on a chair to dry.

Examples of peel

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No call to care, finally, could be too mundane; what could be more ordinary than peeling an egg?
On the other hand, the etched surfaces of peels frequently reveal details not seen in thin sections.
Despite the application of numerous cercariae, there was no evidence of peeling back of the epidermal layer.
Perhaps through the unfolding of the work, artefacts derived from acousmatic music aesthetics could be peeled away.
Suction was used to remove the vitreous; the sclera and retinal pigment epithelium were peeled away.
Carrots were peeled before further processing of the carrots in the cans.
Potatoes, sprouts, apples, mushrooms, carrots and tomatoes were cleaned, peeled and/ or chopped into halves as appropriate.
Fresh tubers can be peeled, chipped, dried and milled into -our.
Larval size is checked at 21 days by peeling back bark at one end of the billet and measuring the width of the feeding galleries.
I would attempt to do something like peeling potatoes with one of those footknives.
He was tall and thin, with a pink, peeling nose and a couple of days' stubble.
Very large peels or sections can be scanned at low magnifications.
By reducing the peeling speed, the structural integrity of the models was greatly improved.
The carcass was then turned over and a similar blubber blanket peeled from the back.
Eggs in the breeding substrate were located by peeling off the bark layer of each piece of pine with a scalpel.
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