skinning

Verb

skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

1. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
   • He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.

   Synonyms:

   bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape

2. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.

   Synonyms:

   flay, fleece, flense, scalp

3. (colloquial) To high five.
4. (colloquial, transitive) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
   • Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
5. (UK, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
   • The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his...2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC
6. (intransitive) To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer.
   • A wound eventually skins over.

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