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• n  loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
• v  strip the skin off
• v  come off in flakes or thin small pieces
  The paint in my house is peeling off
• v  get undressed

• It was one of TV's great inside critiques, peeling back the MTV fantasy of unattainable cool and personifying the sugar-buzzed idiot-children who paid the channel's bills.
• A low, two-story concrete building with peeling paint serves as the recruiting center.
• The peeling-away process has already started as two former key Hughes aides have been questioned in pretrial investigations into the secret life and death of the hermit .

• desquamation
• shedding
• skin
• peel
• pare
• peel off
• flake off
• flake
• undress
• discase
• uncase
• unclothe
• strip
• strip down
• disrobe

• dress

News & Articles

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• Thorough Google Glass teardown reveals 570mAh battery capacity
  Among the handful of Google Glass teardowns (and attempts at doing so) out there, this one by Star Simpson and Scott Torborg is one of the most thorough. The pair deconstructed the eyewear down to components so small they fit on a dime, using considerable force to tear through glue and plastic. Peeling back the cover of the battery enclosure revealed a non-replaceable 2.1 Wh (570mAh) single-cell ...
  June 12, 2013 - Engadget
• Yeezus Has a Few Daft Punk Tracks, More Bon Iver
  Kanye West held a Yeezus listening party on Monday night in New York, peeling back a few layers from the super-secret project debuting in seven days. Pitchfork reports that 17-year-old Chicago rapper Chief Keef and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon appear together on a song called "Can't Handle My Liquor." (The latter ... More »
  June 11, 2013 - Vulture
• Group wants to breathe new life into Chinese Camp
  The plaster peeling from a wall in an 1854 post office does not bother Frank Stanley, who has grand plans for this one-time boomtown in Tuolumne County. The former Modestan and his partners hope to turn 10 vacant, rundown buildings into a tourist spot on a route to Yosemite National Park.
  June 10, 2013 - Modesto Bee

Quotes

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• Andrew Cuomo in BusinessWeek
  This is like peeling an onion,Cuomo said. "It seems to be getting worse the more we uncover. It's more widespread than we originally thought ...... More schools and more lenders at the top end."
• Antonio Villaraigosa in WBT
  It was a very, very difficult operation,Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said. "It was like peeling an onion to find all the victims there." "This situation, particularly early on, with people inside the train, with the injuries, and with...
• President Bush in Reuters India
  He deserves support in peeling his government away from those who do not recognise Israel's right to exist,Bush said.