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unskin

unskin verb: to remove the skin from.

Verb

unskin (third-person singular simple present unskins, present participle unskinning, simple past and past participle unskinned)

  1. (transitive) To remove the skin from.
    • We continue to unskin the neck, and pass the head from within the skin, with the help of a scalpel. We unskin the head as far as the end of the nose, taking care to cut the ears as near as possible to the skull; […]1823, Sarah Lee, Taxidermy, page 27
    Synonyms:
    skin

Synonyms of unskin

Forms of unskin

third-person singular presentunskins
present participleunskinning
past participleunskinned
pastunskinned

Origin of unskin

From un- + skin.

Questions about unskin

What does unskin mean?
Unskin means to remove the skin from.
What part of speech is unskin?
Unskin is a verb.
What is the past tense of unskin?
The past tense of unskin is unskinned.

Words near unskin in the dictionary

  1. unskillfully
  2. unskillfulness
  3. unskimmed
  4. unskimped
  5. unskimpy
  6. unskin
  7. unskinned
  8. unskinning
  9. unskinny
  10. unskins
  11. unskip

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