decortication
decorticate
peel
scab
skim
skim off
cream
cream off
peeling
strip
demembranation
lift
shuck
skive
deadsorb
shell
paste
deintercalated
investment
exsheath
unsheathing
conization
exsheathment
face
undercut
uncover
grind
destratification
allover
retriever
defiltration
disbond
drape
demisting
uncap
peel off
trash can
peeled
demembranated
cervical conization
mat
wrap up
desorbate
unwrap
undo
antibiofoulant
defilamentation
decentration
microdermabrasion
scalp
readsorption
defiber
smear
desheath
bestick
destain
daub
scratch up
denudation
scaling
demist
demucilager
dewatering
wipe up
multisurface
uncovering
baring
core drill
scrape
stripping
decage
husking
scratch
take down
deplastified
clarifying
panel
vestibulectomy
necrosectomy
necrectomy
epithelial tissue
destructuration
deskin
bark
epithelium
swab
pore strip
desheathing
tapetum
envelope
unface
superficies
membranectomy
nonstick
curettage
deintercalated
allover
peeled
demembranated
deplastified
clarifying
nonstick
decortication
peeling
demembranation
investment
unsheathing
conization
exsheathment
face
destratification
retriever
defiltration
disbond
drape
demisting
trash can
cervical conization
mat
desorbate
antibiofoulant
defilamentation
decentration
microdermabrasion
readsorption
denudation
scaling
demucilager
dewatering
multisurface
uncovering
baring
core drill
stripping
husking
panel
vestibulectomy
necrosectomy
necrectomy
epithelial tissue
destructuration
epithelium
swab
pore strip
desheathing
tapetum
envelope
superficies
membranectomy
curettage
decorticate
peel
scab
skim
skim off
cream
cream off
strip
lift
shuck
skive
deadsorb
shell
paste
exsheath
undercut
uncover
grind
uncap
peel off
wrap up
unwrap
undo
scalp
defiber
smear
desheath
bestick
destain
daub
scratch up
demist
wipe up
scrape
decage
scratch
take down
deskin
bark
unface
verb
- To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
- To remove the skin or outer covering of.
- To remove one's clothing.
- To move, separate (off or away).
- To play a peel shot.
- To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
- To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
noun
- A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
- A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
- A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
- The action of peeling away from a formation.
- A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
- An equal or match; a draw.
- The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
verb
- To remove part of a surface (from).
- To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- To act as a strikebreaker.
- To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
- To become covered by a scab or scabs.
noun
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- The scabies.
- A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
- Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
verb
- remove the surface from
- take away possessions from someone
- get undressed
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- lay bare
- steal goods; take as spoils
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- strip the cured leaves from
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- take off or remove
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
noun
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
verb
- remove from a surface
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- move upwards
- move upward
- make audible
- cancel officially
- make off with belongings of others
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- invigorate or heighten
- raise in rank or condition
- take off or away by decreasing
- rise up
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- take illegally
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- put an end to
- remove (hair) by scalping
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
noun
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- the event of something being raised upward
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- a ride in a car
- the act of raising something
verb
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
noun
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A person's ear.
- Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
verb
noun
noun
- outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism
- the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit
- money that is invested with an expectation of profit
- the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result
- the act of putting on robes or vestments
- the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
noun
- Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
- The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- The mouth.
- The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
- One's facial expression.
- A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- The front surface of a bat.
- The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- The frontal aspect of something.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
- The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- Public image; outward appearance.
- Presence; sight; front.
- An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- The directed force of something.
- Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A typeface.
- A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
verb
- To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
- To have the front in a certain direction.
- To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.
- To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- To have as an opponent.
- To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- To be the batsman on strike.
- To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
verb
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut away the underpart of
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
noun
verb
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- To operate by turning a crank.
- To shape with the force of friction.
- To rotate the hips erotically.
- To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- To eat.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
noun
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A tedious and laborious task.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- Hustle; hard work.
noun
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
- A floor pad to protect athletes.
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
- A thickly tangled mess.
- An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
verb
verb
- To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it.
- To summarize or recapitulate.
- To hide or cover up.
- To conclude or finish completely.
- To put on abundant clothing as protection from the cold; to bundle up.
- To curl into a more compact form.
- To tie up; to make too busy to respond.
- To cocoon; to surround protectively.
- To combine, incorporate or encapsulate into one thing.
verb
- To remove the skin of.
- To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
- To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
- To destroy the political influence of.
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- To remove the grass from.
noun
- The top; the summit.
- A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
- A bed or stratum of shellfish.
- The top of the head; the skull.
- A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
noun
- The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
- The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
- The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
- The act of one who scales or climbs.
- The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.
- The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
- The removing of the scales of fish.
- The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
verb
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- cause friction
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- poor handwriting
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
verb
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a website.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- I took down the medicine and soon felt better.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.
- To swallow.
- To reduce.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
noun
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- The whole jury.
- A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- A heap of dressed ore.
- A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
verb
verb
- To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
- To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- To speak sharply.
- To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
- To strip the bark from; to peel.
- To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
- To girdle.
noun
- The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
- The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
- Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
- A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
- An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
- The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
- A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
- Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
noun
- A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
- A sailor; a swabby.
- A naval officer's epaulet.
- A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
- A mop, especially on a ship.
- A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
verb
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