Synonyms of the word skin


SKINALIVENESS - ANIMATION - BAG - BARK - CLAMBER - CLIMB - CUTIS - HIDE - INJURE - LIFE - LIVING - PARE - PEEL - PELT - RIND - SCRAMBLE - SCRAPE - SHIN - SHINNY - SPUTTER - STRIP - STRUGGLE - SURFACE - TEGUMENT - WOUND

skin

  • n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
  • n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  • n. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  • n. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
  • n. (countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical…
  • n. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
  • n. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
  • n. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to…
  • n. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in…
  • n. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
  • n. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
  • n. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
  • n. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom…
  • v. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  • v. (colloquial) To high five.
  • v. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
  • v. (Britain, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
  • v. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
  • v. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  • v. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own,…
  • v. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

aliveness

  • n. The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.

animation

  • n. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
  • n. (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to…
  • n. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness.
  • n. The condition of being animate or alive.
  • n. (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category.

bag

  • n. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
  • n. (informal) A handbag.
  • n. A suitcase.
  • n. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
  • n. One’s preference.
  • n. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
  • n. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
  • n. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
  • n. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure…
  • n. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be…
  • n. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
  • n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
  • n. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
  • n. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
  • v. To put into a bag.
  • v. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
  • v. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
  • v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
  • v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  • v. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
  • v. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.
  • v. To hang like an empty bag.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

bark

  • v. (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially…
  • v. (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
  • v. (transitive) To speak sharply.
  • n. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
  • n. A similar sound made by some other animals.
  • n. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
  • n. (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
  • n. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
  • n. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
  • v. To strip the bark from; to peel.
  • v. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
  • v. To girdle.
  • v. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
  • n. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
  • n. (poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
  • n. (nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

clamber

  • v. To climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
  • n. The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.

climb

  • v. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
  • v. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
  • v. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
  • v. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
  • v. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing.
  • v. (intransitive) to jump high.
  • v. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
  • v. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
  • n. An act of climbing.
  • n. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
  • n. An upwards struggle.

cutis

  • n. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

hide

  • v. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
  • v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
  • n. (countable) The skin of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
  • n. (uncountable, informal, usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
  • n. (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals…
  • v. To beat with a whip made from hide.
  • n. (historical) An English unit of land and tax assessment intended to support one household and notionally…

injure

  • v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
  • v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
  • v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

life

  • n. (uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such…
  • n. Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
  • n. (countable) The fact of a particular individual being alive; a living individual.
  • n. Existence.
  • n. A period of time during which something has existence.
  • n. Animation; spirit; vivacity.
  • n. A biography.
  • n. (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies.

living

  • v. present participle of live.
  • adj. Having life.
  • adj. In use or existing.
  • adj. Of everyday life.
  • adj. True to life.
  • adj. Used as an intensifier.
  • n. (uncountable) The state of being alive.
  • n. Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood.
  • n. A style of life.
  • n. (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of…

pare

  • v. (transitive) to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
  • v. (transitive, often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting…
  • v. to trim the hoof of a horse.

peel

  • v. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  • v. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
  • v. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
  • n. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
  • n. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
  • n. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
  • n. (obsolete) A stake.
  • n. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  • n. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  • n. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza…
  • n. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles…
  • n. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
  • n. (Scotland and curling) An equal or match; a draw.
  • n. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
  • v. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
  • v. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.

pelt

  • n. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly…
  • n. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
  • n. (humorous) Human skin.
  • v. (transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.
  • v. (transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.
  • v. (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.
  • v. (intransitive) To throw out words.
  • v. (transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
  • v. To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
  • n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

rind

  • n. tree bark.
  • n. A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.
  • n. (figuratively, uncountable, rare, usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal…
  • v. (transitive) To remove the rind from.
  • n. An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.

scramble

  • interj. (Britain) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that…
  • v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
  • v. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
  • v. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
  • v. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to…
  • v. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
  • v. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
  • v. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
  • v. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize…
  • n. A rush or hurry.
  • n. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
  • n. A motocross race.
  • n. Any frantic period of activity.

scrape

  • v. To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.
  • v. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
  • v. To barely manage to achieve.
  • v. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
  • v. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such…
  • v. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
  • v. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
  • v. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
  • v. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth…
  • n. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
  • n. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
  • n. An awkward set of circumstances.
  • n. (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
  • n. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

shin

  • n. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
  • n. A fishplate for a railway.
  • v. (Britain, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the…
  • v. To strike with the shin.
  • v. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
  • n. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic…

shinny

  • v. To climb in an awkward manner.
  • n. (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or…
  • n. (Canada) Street hockey.
  • n. (Canada, informal) Hockey.
  • n. Moonshine (illegal alcohol).

sputter

  • n. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
  • v. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
  • v. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
  • v. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
  • v. (transitive) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily…
  • v. (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it…
  • v. (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

strip

  • n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
  • n. A comic strip.
  • n. A landing strip.
  • n. A strip steak.
  • n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  • n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  • n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  • n. Striptease.
  • n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  • n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
  • v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
  • v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
  • v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  • v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
  • v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  • v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
  • v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
  • v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
  • v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
  • v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  • v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  • v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  • v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
  • v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

struggle

  • n. Strife, contention, great effort.
  • v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  • v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

surface

  • n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
  • n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
  • n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
  • n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
  • n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
  • v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
  • v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
  • v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
  • v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
  • v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

tegument

  • n. Something which covers; a covering or coating.
  • n. (anatomy, obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

wound

  • n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
  • n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
  • n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
  • v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
  • v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.

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