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  • verb To remove the peel from something; to peel
  • verb To unwind something

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Examples

  • Lena tried to unpeel her arm from around the baby, but Willa woke and the whole thing started again.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • History will unpeel these multiple layers of wrong but the current government strategy fails even on its own terms.

    73 months and counting … Andrew Simms 2010

  • Those who write outside it will laud the arrival of a new era of citizen journalism, where a flat hierarchy will unpeel the death grip of establishment fingers from the throat of info-consumers.

    Adam Hanft: The Hitchens Outpouring and Journalistic Self-Hatred Adam Hanft 2011

  • It's been, thankfully, a whole new challenge to unpeel this layer of human emotion.

    Dexter's Michael C. Hall on Emmy Nom — and Season 6's New Journey 2011

  • Lena tried to unpeel her arm from around the baby, but Willa woke and the whole thing started again.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Those who write outside it will laud the arrival of a new era of citizen journalism, where a flat hierarchy will unpeel the death grip of establishment fingers from the throat of info-consumers.

    Adam Hanft: The Hitchens Outpouring and Journalistic Self-Hatred Adam Hanft 2011

  • So ... let's try and unpeel some of the layers of potential meaning between the two.

    Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008

  • Max Popenker, founder of the website www.guns.ru, shared Soviet-era accounts of weapons designers and their work, including limited-edition and out-of-print references, that helped unpeel legends.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • Katy's monkey toes could probably unpeel Russles uncut dick.

    Dlisted - Be Very Afraid 2010

  • So ... let's try and unpeel some of the layers of potential meaning between the two.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008

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