peeling off
Layer slowly separating
Peeling off means separating or removing by pulling away from a surface—like skin peeling off after a sunburn or a sticker peeling off a window.
It extends to people or vehicles breaking away from a group: One by one, the cyclists peeled off toward their homes.
In military or aerobatic contexts, aircraft peel off when they break formation in sequence.
- dead skinDiscarded epidermal cells
- stripNarrow elongated piece
- flakeThin detached fragment
- paint chipsPigment samples or flakes
- delaminatingLayers splitting apart
slough · detach · coming loose · breaking away · skin · molt · pull · excoriate · dislodge · lift · tear · defect · sticker · price tag · exposing · layer · outer layer · release
- undressingundressing, disrobing, stripping, getting undressed, removing
group movement/departure
peeling offjoining up
Formally becoming part of
falling in · rejoining · converging · tagging along · assembling
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