Synonyms for skin
skɪnskin

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1. skin, tegument, cutisnoun

   a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

   "your skin is the largest organ of your body"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel, skin

2. skinnoun

   an outer surface (usually thin)

   "the skin of an airplane"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel

3. hide, pelt, skinnoun

   body covering of a living animal

   Synonyms:
   peel, pelt, tegument, cutis, hide, fell, fur, skin

4. skinnoun

   a person's skin regarded as their life

   "he tried to save his skin"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel

5. peel, skinnoun

   the rind of a fruit or vegetable

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel, skin

6. skinverb

   a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal

   Synonyms:
   pelt, cutis, hide, tegument, peel

7. clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputterverb

   climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

   Synonyms:
   fight, beat, contend, shin, splutter, jumble, scramble, throw together, struggle, bark, spit out, sputter, pare, scrape, skin, peel, clamber, shinny

8. skin, scrapeverb

   bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of

   "The boy skinned his knee when he fell"

   Synonyms:
   scrape up, pare, peel, shin, scramble, struggle, bark, sputter, come up, scratch, kowtow, grate, scrape, skin, genuflect, clamber, scratch up, shinny

9. bark, skinverb

   remove the bark of a tree

   Synonyms:
   scramble, struggle, peel, clamber, pare, shin, shinny, sputter, skin, scrape, bark

10. skin, peel, pareverb

    strip the skin off

    "pare apples"

    Synonyms:
    undress, flake off, scramble, pare down, shin, flake, struggle, unclothe, bark, peel off, sputter, pare, trim, uncase, whittle, strip down, disrobe, strip, scrape, skin, discase, peel, clamber, shinny

Matched Categories

1. • Climb
   • Injure
   • Life
   • Rind
   • Strip
   • Surface

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. skinnoun

   Synonyms:
   hide, pelt, derm, CUTIS

2. skinnoun

   Synonyms:
   husk, hull, peel, rind

3. skinverb

   Synonyms:
   flay, excoriate

4. skinverb

   Synonyms:
   peel, pare

5. skinverb

   Synonyms:
   cover with a skin or crust

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. skinnoun

   Synonyms:
   integument, tegument, derm, epidermis, cuticle, scarfskin, true skin, dermis, derma, cutis, membrane, epithelium, ecteron, enderon, ecderon, pelt, pell, pelage, peltry, hide, kip, husk, hull, glume, (of fruit) peel, peeling, rind, paring, epicarp, pellicle, film, episperm, testa, tegmen, slough, exuviae (cast-off-skin), parchment, vellum

   Antonyms:
   pulp, flesh

   Associated words:
   dermatology, dermatologist, dermic, dermatic, dermal, cutaneous, dermatitis, dermatography, dermatoid, smegma, caul, dermatopathic, dermoplastic, dermoplasty, hypodermic, subcutaneous, dermatopathy, exuviate, exuviation, desquamate, desquamation, slough, dermatophyte, dermostosis, cuticular, epidermal, apellous, abrasion, emphractic, excoriation

2. skinverb

   Synonyms:
   flay, excoriate, pare, peel, (Slang) cheat, defraud, fleece

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "skin":

   cutaneous, dermal, epidermis, complexion, leather, shovel, ass, pelt, fur, hide, flogging, mask, flesh, skins, whipping, hag, neck, peel, skinned, pelts, floozy, kill

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1. Ben Lyles:

   We stand for so much more than a girl in a bikini, it's empowering for our baristas to wear a bikini, feel comfortable in their own skin, embrace that, and have a choice to do something they enjoy and love. He continued.

2. Dawn Holman:

   The most immediate benefit of using sunscreen is that it will help you avoid getting sunburned when spending time outdoors, in the long term, regular sunscreen can help prevent premature skin aging such as wrinkles and age spots.

3. Andrew Robertson:

   If you are very close to the material or touching it, the radiation risk increases immensely and could cause serious damage to your health, including causing radiation burns to the skin.

4. Shalom Blac:

   I remember just screaming and scraping my body, and my skin was literally falling on the floor, i remember my mom telling me that I fainted. She thought I was gone.

5. Athanassia Athanassiou:

   These biodegradable materials, natural materials, they are very flexible so they can be used for robotic skins. But they can be also very hard so they can be used for internal parts of a robot. And also, in this flexible skin - robotic skin let's say - we can incorporate sensors so they have this tactile sensing that the robots need, but with biodegradable materials.