skinned

«skinned» in Mova's school dictionary: the past of «to skin»: to take the skin off an animal or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (skin, skins, skinned, skinning); adjective (-skinned in compounds)

meaning for a pupil

1) Skinned is the past of «to skin»: to take the skin off an animal or fruit. tree →

2) If you have skinned your knee, you have scraped some skin off it. tree →

3) As part of a word, -skinned describes the kind of skin something has: thick-skinned, dark-skinned, smooth-skinned. tree →

4) Thick-skinned means not easily upset by criticism; thin-skinned means easily upset. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday life and safety: a skinned knee from falling off a bike needs washing and a plaster. Cooking: skinned chicken or skinned tomatoes. Feelings: «You need to be thick-skinned to be a referee». Phrases: «keep your eyes skinned» (watch very carefully), «more than one way to skin a cat» (more than one way to do something).

examples

• I skinned my knee on the gravel. tree →
• The cook skinned the potatoes. tree →
• Keep your eyes skinned for the bus. tree →
• She is thick-skinned and laughs off teasing. tree →
• He is thin-skinned and gets upset easily. tree →
• The recipe uses skinned tomatoes. tree →
• The hunter skinned the rabbit for its fur. tree →
• Bring up the great bull buffaloes, the blue-skinned herd bulls with the angry eyes. tree →

note

Spelling: skin doubles the n: skinned, skinning. Be careful with words for people's skin colour: describe kindly and only when it matters. «There's more than one way to skin a cat» is an old saying and does not mean hurting cats.

In the corpora

• Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «skinned» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.