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skin has 18 distinct synonyms spread across 9 of its 12 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
“your skin is the largest organ of your body”
an outer surface (usually thin)
“the skin of an airplane”
a person's skin regarded as their life
“he tried to save his skin”
bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
“The boy skinned his knee when he fell”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for skin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.