skin
verb/skɪn/
/skɪn/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they skin | /skɪn/ /skɪn/ |
| he / she / it skins | /skɪnz/ /skɪnz/ |
| past simple skinned | /skɪnd/ /skɪnd/ |
| past participle skinned | /skɪnd/ /skɪnd/ |
| -ing form skinning | /ˈskɪnɪŋ/ /ˈskɪnɪŋ/ |
- skin something to take the skin off an animal, a fruit or a vegetable
- You'll need four ripe tomatoes, skinned and chopped.
- We learnt how to trap and skin a rabbit.
- skin something to rub the skin off part of your body by accident
- He skinned his knees climbing down the tree.
- (computing) skin something to change the way that a computer program presents information on the screen to suit your particular needs
- The only initial costs the business had were those involved with skinning the website.
animal/fruit/vegetable
part of body
Word Originlate Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn; related to Dutch schinden ‘flay, peel’ and German schinden.
Idioms
See skin in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarykeep your eyes skinned/peeled (for somebody/something)
- (informal) to look out for somebody/something that you might see
- We kept our eyes skinned for any signs of life.
there’s more than one way to skin a cat
- (saying, humorous) there are many different ways to achieve somethingTopics Successc2
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