skinned
Britishadjective
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stripped of the skin
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having a skin as specified
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( in combination )
thick-skinned
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to watch carefully
Example Sentences
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His family wrote in a tribute: "Our beautiful soft skinned, beautiful long eye lashed boy with a cheeky charming infectious smile that touched everyone's hearts left this dimension early this morning in my arms."
From BBC
And since they were at the pool and had a comb, they washed their hair and combed out two days of tangles, which hurt more than the skinned knee.
From Literature
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The driver of the van was an older, dark brown–skinned woman with a head full of gray braids that made twinkling sounds when she moved her head.
From Literature
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It was her husband returning from the day's hunt, a large plastic bag in hand containing a skinned seal.
From Barron's
But she had tried again, and again, licking the blood off her skinned knees, climbing up trees and jumping out of them.
From Literature
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