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skin
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- pronunciation:
- skIn
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
Your skin is the part of your body that covers the whole outside of it. When you touch something with your fingers, it is really the skin of your fingers that touches it.
When Sarah had a rash, she had red spots all over her skin.Logan hurt the skin on his knee when he fell on the sidewalk. |
| definition 2: |
"Skin" is what we call the outside part of some fruits and vegetables. Sometimes we eat this kind of skin, but sometimes we don't. We usually eat the skin of grapes, for example, but we don't eat the skin of oranges.
Jayden's grandma peels the skin from apples when she makes a pie.Tina and her mom looked for bananas that didn't have brown spots on their skin.- synonyms:
- peel, rind
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| related words: |
organ |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
skins, skinning, skinned |
| definition 1: |
When you skin your arm, you damage the skin of your arm by scraping it against something.
Mike skinned his knee when he fell off his skateboard.- synonyms:
- scrape
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| definition 2: |
When people skin an animal, they remove its skin.
The hunter shot the deer, and later, he skinned it.- similar words:
- clean, dress, peel, strip
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| related words: |
scale, scrape, scratch |
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