peel away/off

Examples of peeling

peeling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

No call to care, finally, could be too mundane; what could be more ordinary than peeling an egg?
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.
Despite the application of numerous cercariae, there was no evidence of peeling back of the epidermal layer.
This is associated permit prospective studies of greater quality to be with dry peeling skin that itches and feels tender.
Eggs in the breeding substrate were located by peeling off the bark layer of each piece of pine with a scalpel.
Erosion, skin infection, peeling, hyper/hypo-pigmentation of the skin.
So visions are immediately conjured up of sunglasses and peeling bodies lying on beaches and that kind of thing.
In many major mechanized factories, machinery such as peeling machines, splint choppers, veneer choppers, and polishing drums already existed.
The process can be described as one of peeling an onion-layer after layer must be cautiously peeled away.
We don't know yet, though investigations are gradually peeling away the alternatives.
One cannot imagine her buying a "how to" book to improve her egg peeling technique so that she could feel better about herself.
Since we cannot construe the peeling of a tomato as a conceptually autonomous event, the unaccusative (20b) is unacceptable.
That razor is so bad it's peeling my skin!
However, exact peeling is computationally infeasible for large complex pedigrees.
Peeling can be used to produce unbiased genotypic probabilities for small complex pedigrees, but peeling may be infeasible for large complex pedigrees.
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