/ Thesaurus / P Synonyms of peel off Find synonyms for: Verb1. peel off, skin, peel, pareusage: peel off the outer layer of something2. peel off, take offusage: take off, as with some difficulty; "He peeled off his blood-soaked shirt"3. peel off, swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cutusage: leave a formation4. peel off, peel, flake off, flake, chip, chip off, come off, break away, break offusage: come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"5. desquamate, peel off, shed, molt, exuviate, moult, sloughusage: peel off in scales; "dry skin desquamates"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: diaphanous Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language