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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Skin \Skin\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Skinned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skinning}.]
1. To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
2. To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak.
3. To strip of money or property; to cheat. [Slang]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
skin
noun
1: a natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" [syn: {tegument}, {cutis}]
2: the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit) [syn: {rind}, {peel}]
3: an outer surface (usually thin); "the skin of an airplane"
4: body covering of a living animal [syn: {hide}, {pelt}]
5: a person's skin regarded as their life; "he tried to save his skin"
6: the rind of a fruit or vegetable [syn: {peel}]
7: a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the skin of an animal
verb
1: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: {clamber}, {scramble}, {shin}, {shinny}, {struggle}, {sputter}]
2: bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell" [syn: {scrape}]
3: remove the bark of a tree [syn: {bark}]
4: strip the skin off; "pare apples" [syn: {peel}, {pare}]
5: strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken" [syn: {stub}, {scrape}, {abrade}] [also: {skinning}, {skinned}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
skinned
adjective: having the skin scraped off; "skinned knees and scraped elbows" [syn: {abraded}, {scraped}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
skinned See {skin}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "skinned": all up with, beat, beaten, bested, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, fallen, fixed, floored, hors de combat, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, put to rout, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned alive, stampeded, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, whelmed, whipped, worsted
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