Dictionary entry
Peg away
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(phrv) မနားမနေတကုပ်ကုပ်လုပ်သည်။
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
- First peel the potatoes and cut them in half.
- [peel something from something] : He peeled a £50 note from a big roll of money.
- [peel something off/away/back] : To fasten the envelope first peel off the strip of paper along the edge.
- The paint in the hall is beginning to peel.
- Her sunburn was so bad that her shoulders were peeling.