skin

1 a natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" [syn: tegument, cutis]

2 the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit) [syn: rind, peel]

3 an outer surface (usually thin); "the skin of an airplane"

4 body covering of a living animal [syn: hide, pelt]

5 a person's skin regarded as their life; "he tried to save his skin"

6 the rind of a fruit or vegetable [syn: peel]

7 a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the skin of an animal

1 climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, struggle, sputter]

2 bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell" [syn: scrape]

3 remove the bark of a tree [syn: bark]

4 strip the skin off; "pare apples" [syn: peel, pare]

5 strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken" [syn: stub, scrape, abrade] [also: skinning, skinned]skinned adj : having the skin scraped off; "skinned knees and scraped elbows" [syn: abraded, scraped]skinned See skin

English

Adjective

1. Having skin.
2. Covered in a thin membrane resembling skin.
3. Having skin (or similar outer layer) totally or partially removed.

   My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.

Verb

skinned

1. past of skin

all up with, beat, beaten, bested, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, fallen, fixed, floored, hors de combat, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, put to rout, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned alive, stampeded, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, whelmed, whipped, worsted