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skinned

/skɪnd/

skinned adjective: having skin. Also the simple past and past participle of skin.

Adjective (1)

skinned (not comparable)

  1. Having skin.
    1. (in-compounds) Having a specific type of skin.
      • Kiwi: Kiwi fruits are imported from New Zealand. Sometimes called Chinese gooseberries, these brown fuzzy-skinned fruits will be soft to the touch, like an avocado, when ripe. To serve this fruit, peel and slice.1969, “Guide to Buying Fruit”, in “Buying, Storing, and Preparing”, in Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book, New York, N.Y.; Des Moines, Ia.: Better Homes and Gardens Books, published 1970 (2nd...
  2. Covered in a thin membrane resembling skin.

Adjective (2)

skinned (not comparable)

  1. Having skin (or similar outer layer) totally or partially removed.
    • My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.
  2. (slang) Stripped of money or property.

Also used as

skinned is also the simple past and past participle of skin.

skinned meaning in Urdu

skinned in Urdu

کھال والی

Examples of skinned in a sentence

  • Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.
  • He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
  • In plain view of the entire party, Douggie and his buddies skinned up and started getting high.

All 18 example sentences with skinned

Origin of skinned

From skin (noun) + -ed (“having”).

From skin (“to remove skin”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming past tenses).

Words formed from skinned

Phrases with skinned

4 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with skinned

10 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about skinned

What does skinned mean?
Skinned means having skin.
What is skinned in Urdu?
Skinned in Urdu is کھال والی. See Skinned meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is skinned?
Skinned is an adjective.
How do you pronounce skinned?
Skinned is pronounced /skɪnd/.

Words near skinned in the dictionary

  1. skinlike
  2. skinmag
  3. skinmags
  4. skinnable
  5. skinne
  6. skinned
  7. skinned a flint
  8. skinned and grinned
  9. skinned back
  10. skinned over
  11. skinned someone alive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skinned (page history and authors); skinned (Urdu, 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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