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peeled

/piːld/

peeled adjective: with the outermost layer or skin removed. Also the simple past and past participle of peel.

Adjective (1)

peeled (not comparable)

  1. With the outermost layer or skin removed.
    • The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.
    • He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it.
    Antonyms:
    unpeeled
  2. Dieted down such as having attained a peak contrast of trained muscle volume.

Adjective (2)

peeled (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.
    • Genova lemons average 8-10 sections and 5-6 seeds. They are thick-peeled and acid. Thin-peeled fruit at right was cured about 10 days.1958 June, J. Henry Burke, Citrus Industry of Chile (Foreign Agricultural Report; 108), page 14
    • Only some mammals, such as monkeys (Janson, 1983) and bats (Phua and Corlett, 1989), appear to have the necessary dental capacity to open peeled fruits.1995, Agricultural Bulletin of the Malay Peninsula, volume 47, page 109
    Synonyms:
    peely

Also used as

peeled is also the simple past and past participle of peel.

peeled meaning in Marathi and Tagalog

peeled in Marathi

सोललेली, सोललेले

peeled in Tagalog

with outer layer removed
talop

Synonyms of peeled

Antonyms

Origin of peeled

From peel (verb) + -ed (suffix forming past tenses).

From peel (noun) + -ed (“having”).

Words formed from peeled

Phrases with peeled

5 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with peeled

14 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about peeled

What does peeled mean?
Peeled means with the outermost layer or skin removed.
What is peeled in Marathi?
Peeled in Marathi is सोललेली, सोललेले. See Peeled meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is peeled?
Peeled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce peeled?
Peeled is pronounced /piːld/.

Words near peeled in the dictionary

  1. peelability
  2. peelable
  3. peelaw
  4. peelaws
  5. peele
  6. peeled
  7. peeled away
  8. peeled back the onion
  9. peeled off
  10. peeled out
  11. peeled rubber

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peeled (page history and authors); peeled (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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