skin

1. 1.

   climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

   Synonymsclamberscrambleshinshinnystrugglesputter

   Broaderclimb
2. 2.

   bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of

   “The boy skinned his knee when he fell”

   Synonymsscrape

   Broaderinjure
3. 3.

   remove the bark of a tree

   Synonymsbark

   Broaderstrip
4. 4.

   strip the skin off

   “pare apples”

   Synonymspeelpare

   Broaderstrip

   Narrowerpeel offflay

Other forms of skin

plural

skins·

past tense or participle

skinned

present participle

skinning

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about skin

What does skin mean?

skin means "a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skin?

skin has 1 syllable: skin. In IPA it is /ˈskɪn/.

What is another word for skin?

Close synonyms include tegument, cutis, hide, pelt, skinhead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skin a common word?

skin is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with skin?

7 words rhyme with skin. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.