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# skinned

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

«skinned» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Skinned is the past of «to skin»: to take the skin off an animal or fruit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#m1)
2. If you have skinned your knee, you have scraped some skin off it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#m2)
3. As part of a word, -skinned describes the kind of skin something has: thick-skinned, dark-skinned, smooth-skinned. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#m3)
4. Thick-skinned means not easily upset by criticism; thin-skinned means easily upset. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#m4)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#x1)
- The cook skinned the potatoes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#x2)
- Keep your eyes skinned for the bus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#x3)
- She is thick-skinned and laughs off teasing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#x4)
- He is thin-skinned and gets upset easily. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#x5)
- The recipe uses skinned tomatoes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#x6)
- The hunter skinned the rabbit for its fur. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#x7)
- Bring up the great bull buffaloes, the blue-skinned herd bulls with the angry eyes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/#x8)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «skinned» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skinned/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«skinned» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/skinned.html) on Mova free.