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• v  climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
• v  bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
  The boy skinned his knee when he fell
• v  remove the bark of a tree
• v  strip the skin off
• a  having skin of a specified kind

• Brussels masterminds a Smurf invasion of Germany and France even as the blue-skinned creatures turn 50 and contemplate revealing intimate secrets.
• The brown-skinned man with the golden horn pursed his scarred lips, blew a short stream of incredibly high, shining notes and then carefully laid the trumpet down.
• So white-skinned people in India think they are good-looking.

• clamber
• scramble
• shin
• shinny
• skin
• struggle
• sputter
• scrape
• bark
• peel
• pare

• skinless

News & Articles

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• PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter
  Princeton A taxi driver reported that four light-skinned black males in their early to mid-20s fled from his taxi while it was stopped on John Street near Green Street after one grabbed and dropped $60 from his hand on June 13 at 4:58 a.m. Police said the taxi driver was not injured during the incident.
  June 17, 2013 - The Princeton Packet
• Police investigating home invasion
  Holyoke Police detectives are searching for two dark-skinned men who they believe to be armed and dangerous.
  June 16, 2013 - WWLP Springfield
• Tans pale into insignificance
  The tan is fading from fashion. A coppertone complexion achieved the fake way, through lotions, sprays and powders isn't looking so fresh this summer season, as young, fair-skinned stars such as Amy Adams (see this week's '
  June 15, 2013 - Salem Statesman Journal

Quotes

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• Harry Reid in Iowa Independent
  According to a book chronicling the campaign, Reid said he country "was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama - a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.'"
• Ewan McGregor in Market Rasen Today
  McGregor told BBC Breakfast of the recent scare: "I had a little skin cancer under my eye. I just went to have them (the moles) checked. You have to be careful if you're pale-skinned and spend time in the sun with moles. So I went to see a...
• Al Sharpton in International Herald Tribune
  I don't think he ever got his credit because people saw him just as the show man and not the music innovator and the social innovator that he was,Sharpton said. "He changed the perception of regular blacks. He wasn't tall, light skinned....