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skin (sk

1. The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.

2. An animal pelt, especially the comparatively pliable pelt of a small or young animal: a tent made of goat skins.

3. A usually thin, closely adhering outer layer: the skin of a peach; a sausage skin; the skin of an aircraft.

4. A container for liquids that is made of animal skin.

5. Music A drumhead.

6. Informal One's life or physical survival: They lied to save their skins.

v. skinned, skin·ning, skins

v.tr.

1. To remove skin from: skinned and gutted the rabbit.

2. To bruise, cut, or injure the skin or surface of: She skinned her knee.

3. To remove (an outer covering); peel off: skin off the thin bark.

4. To cover with or as if with skin: skin the framework of a canoe.

5. Slang To fleece; swindle.

v.intr.

1. To become covered with or as if with skin: In January the pond skins over with ice.

2. To pass with little room to spare: We barely skinned by.

adj. Slang

Of, relating to, or depicting pornography: skin magazines.

Idioms:

by the skin of (one's) teeth

By the smallest margin.

get under (someone's) skin

1. To irritate or stimulate; provoke.

2. To preoccupy someone; become an obsession.

under the skin

Beneath the surface; fundamentally: enemies who are really brothers under the skin.

[Middle English, from Old Norse skinn; see sek- in Indo-European roots.]

skinless adj.

skin

cutaway of human skin

A. melanocyte B. muscle C. sebaceous gland D. hair shaft E. epidermis F. dermis G. subcutaneous tissue H. fat I. artery J. sweat gland K. hair follicle L. Pacinian corpuscle

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Adj.

skinless - having no skin

skinned - having skin of a specified kind

Translations

skinless [ˈskɪnlɪs] ADJ [chicken, sausages] → sin piel

skinless [ˈskɪnləs] adj → sans peau
skinless chicken breast fillets → de la poitrine de poulet sans peau

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skin skinned	Anything that hinted at love for the moment alarmed her; it was as much an infliction to her as the rubbing of a skinless wound. Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context It was while engaged in this that a hideous, skinless thing came out of the house and ran screaming down the beach till it fell in the sand and mowed and gibbered under the scorching sun. South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context I was perpetually exasperated with the petty promptings of his conceit and his love of patronage, with his self-complacent belief in Bertha Grant's passion for him, with his half-pitying contempt for me--seen not in the ordinary indications of intonation and phrase and slight action, which an acute and suspicious mind is on the watch for, but in all their naked skinless complication. The Lifted Veil by Eliot, George View in context	skin rash skin search skin sensation skin senses skin test skin tracking skin tumor skin up Skin wool skin-deep skin-dive skin-diver skin-pop skin-tight Skinbound Skinbound disease skincare Skinch skinflick skinflint skinful skinhead skinheads skink Skinker skinless skinned Skinner Skinner box Skinnerian Skinniness skinny skinny-dip skinny-dipper skinny-dipping skint skintight skip skip about or around skip across skip distance Skip kennel Skip mackerel skip off skip over skip rope skip through skip town skip zone skip-bomb skip-tooth saw	skinder skinder skinflick skinflint skinflints skinfold skinfold calipers Skinfold thickness Skinfold thickness skinfold thickness measurement skinfolds Skinful skinfuls Sking Sking Sking Sking skinhead skinhead skinheads skinheads Skinheads Still Scare People skink skink skink Skinker Skinks Skinks Skinks SkinLaser skinless Skinless Boneless Filet Skinlight SKINN Skinnable skinned skinned skinned skinned skinned skinned bolt skinned teeth skinned teeth skinned teeth skinned teeth skinned up skinned up skinned up skinned up skinner skinner skinner Skinner box Skinner box Skinner box Skinner box Skinner Boxes Skinner Boxes Skinner Interpolating Fast Fourier Transform Skinner Leadership Institute Skinner's line

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skinned

Anything that hinted at love for the moment alarmed her; it was as much an infliction to her as the rubbing of a skinless wound.

Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context

It was while engaged in this that a hideous, skinless thing came out of the house and ran screaming down the beach till it fell in the sand and mowed and gibbered under the scorching sun.

South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context

I was perpetually exasperated with the petty promptings of his conceit and his love of patronage, with his self-complacent belief in Bertha Grant's passion for him, with his half-pitying contempt for me--seen not in the ordinary indications of intonation and phrase and slight action, which an acute and suspicious mind is on the watch for, but in all their naked skinless complication.

The Lifted Veil by Eliot, George View in context

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