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101skin — n 1. integument, epidermis, cuticle, scarf skin, Anat. corium, derma, cutis; hide, pelt, jacket, fleece, fell, fur, leather, vellum, shagreen; slough, Pathol. desquamation, exuviae. 2. rind, peel, Bot. epicarp, hull, bark, cortex, shell, husk;… …
102strip — I v 1. peel, pare, skin, excoriate, decorticate, excorticate, flay, scale, bark; hull, shell, husk, shuck; uncover, expose, lay open, bare, denude. 2. remove, take off, cast off, throw off, drip; shed, exfoliate, Pathol. desquamate, slough, molt …
103excorticate — /əksˈkɔtəkeɪt/ (say uhks kawtuhkayt), /ɛks / (say eks ) verb (t) (excorticated, excorticating) to remove the mark, husk or outer covering from; decorticate. {ex 1 + Latin cortic , stem of cortex bark + ate1} –excortication /əkskɔtəˈkeɪʃən/ (say… …
104peel — I. /pil / (say peel) verb (t) 1. to strip the skin, rind, bark, etc., from; decorticate. 2. to strip off (skin, etc.) 3. Croquet to send (another player s ball) through a hoop. –verb (i) 4. (of skin, etc.) to come off. 5. to lose the skin, rind,… …
105molt — [v] shed cast off, decorticate, doff, exuviate, peel, pull off, slough, take off; concepts 142,176,179,180,180,992 …
106pare — [v] peel, trim carve, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, decrease, dock, flay, knock off, lop, lower, mark down, prune, reduce, scalp, scrape, shave, shear, skin, skive, slash, strip, thin, uncover; concepts 176,202,236,247 Ant.… …
107peel — [n] skin, covering bark, cover, epicarp, exocarp, husk, peeling, pellicle, rind, shell, shuck; concepts 428,484 Ant. innards, insides peel [v] take off outer covering decorticate, delaminate, desquamate, excorticate, exfoliate, flake, flay, pare …
108shave — [v] cut outer covering off barber, brush, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, graze, kiss, make bare, pare, peel, plane, prune, shear, shingle, shred, skim, skin, slash, slice thin, sliver, strip, touch, trim; concepts… …
109skin — [n] outer covering, especially of animate being bark, carapace, case, casing, coating, crust, cutis, derma, dermis, epidermis, fell, film, fur, hide, hull, husk, integument, jacket, membrane, outside, parchment, peel, pelt, rind, sheath,… …
110strip — [n] thin piece of material band, banding, bar, belt, billet, bit, fillet, ingot, layer, ribbon, rod, section, segment, shred, slab, slip, stick, stripe, swathe, tape, tongue; concepts 471,834 Ant. whole strip [v] bare, uncover decorticate, denude …
