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SKINNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having skin of a specified kind
Classified under:
Similar:
smooth-skinned (having smooth skin)
velvety-skinned (having skin like velvet)
Antonym:
skinless (having no skin)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb skin
Context examples:
He had committed what was to him sacrilege, sunk his fangs into the holy flesh of a god, and of a white-skinned superior god at that.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The knuckles were skinned and inflamed clear across, the fingers swollen, the nails rimmed with black.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A twitch brought away the tangled red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle-beaks; and lean, slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
