Dictionary entry

Peel off

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(phrv) အဝတ်ချွတ်သည်။

Definition

peel /pi:l/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (for sb) အခြံႏႊာသည္၊ သင္သည္။ ခြာသည္။ (ေရွး) ေႏႊးသည္။ peel a banana/an apple/a potato ❍ Would you peel me an orange? ❍ Could you peel these prawns for me? (ခ) ~ sth away/off ကြာသည္။ ခြာသည္။ peel away the outer layer ❍ The label will peel off if you soak it in water. (ဂ) ႏႊာႏိုင္ေသာအခြံရိွသည္။ oranges that peel easily. ၂။ (က) ~ (off) အလိပ္အလိပ္ကြာ သည္။ အဖတ္လိုက္၊ အလိပ္လိုက္ကြာသည္။ The wallpaper is peeling. ❍ After sunbathing, my skin began to peel. ❍ The bark of plane trees peels off regularly. (ခ) (အေရခြံ) ကြာသည္။ Put on some cream to stop your face from peeling. ❍ The walls have begun to peel. n [U] အခြံ။ …ခြံ။ lemon/orange peel. Compare RIND, SKIN ၃, ZEST ၃ ❏ peeler n အခြံႏႊာကိရိယာ။ a potato peeler. ❍ POTATO ❏ peelings /'pi:lÇŋz/ n [pl] ႏႊာၿပီးသားအခြံ။ ❏ peel off [ PHRV ] ယာဥ္တန္း၊ အုပ္စုထဲမွ ခြဲထြက္သည္။ The leading vehicles in the motorcade peeled off to the right. ❏ peel (sth) off [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (အဝတ္) ခြၽတ္သည္။ peel off one's sweater ❍ You look hot—why don't you peel off?

Examples

  1. First peel the potatoes and cut them in half.
  2. [peel something from something] : He peeled a £50 note from a big roll of money.
  3. [peel something off/away/back] : To fasten the envelope first peel off the strip of paper along the edge.
  4. The paint in the hall is beginning to peel.
  5. Her sunburn was so bad that her shoulders were peeling.