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unskinning

unskinning is the present participle and gerund of unskin.

Meaning of unskin

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

Questions about unskinning

What is unskinning the present participle and gerund of?
Unskinning is the present participle and gerund of unskin.

Words near unskinning in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unskinning (page history and authors); unskin (page history and authors). 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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