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Verb skin has 5 senses
- clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter - climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
--1 is one way to climb
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- skin, scrape - bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell"
--2 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:
Did he skin his foot?
- bark, skin - remove the bark of a tree
--3 is one way to strip
Sample sentence:
They skin the trees
- skin, peel, pare - strip the skin off; "pare apples"
--4 is one way to strip
Sample sentence:
The chefs skin the vegetables
- stub, scrape, skin, abrade - strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken"
--5 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:
Did he skin his foot?
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