The difference between Disrobe and Peel

When used as verbs, disrobe means to undress someone or something, whereas peel means to remove the skin or outer covering of.


Peel is also noun with the meaning: the skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

check bellow for the other definitions of Disrobe and Peel

  1. Disrobe as a verb (transitive):

    to undress someone or something

  2. Disrobe as a verb (intransitive):

    to undress oneself

  1. Peel as a verb (transitive):

    To remove the skin or outer covering of.

    Examples:

    "I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her."

  2. Peel as a verb (transitive):

    To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

    Examples:

    "I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily."

    "We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose."

  3. Peel as a verb (intransitive):

    To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

    Examples:

    "I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel."

  4. Peel as a verb (intransitive):

    To remove one's clothing.

    Examples:

    "The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in."

  5. Peel as a verb (intransitive):

    To move, separate (off or away).

    Examples:

    "The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines."

  1. Peel as a noun (usually, uncountable):

    The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

  2. Peel as a noun (countable, rugby):

    The action of peeling away from a formation.

  3. Peel as a noun (countable):

    A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

  1. Peel as a noun (obsolete):

    A stake.

  2. Peel as a noun (obsolete):

    A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

  3. Peel as a noun (archaic):

    A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

  1. Peel as a noun:

    A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

  2. Peel as a noun:

    A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.

  3. Peel as a noun (archaic, US):

    The blade of an oar.

  1. Peel as a noun (Scotland, curling):

    An equal or match; a draw.

  2. Peel as a noun (curling):

    A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

  1. Peel as a verb (curling):

    To play a peel shot.

  1. Peel as a verb (croquet):

    To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

  1. Peel as a verb:

    to sound loudly.

  1. Peel as a verb (archaic, transitive):

    To plunder; to pillage, rob.