peel off

verb

peeled off; peeling off; peels off

intransitive verb

1

: to veer away from an airplane formation especially for diving or landing

2

: depart, leave

Synonyms of peel off

• move
• exit
• depart
• get
• go
• get off
• pull out
• walk out
• push off
• run along
• cut out
• bail out
• go off
• dig out
• push on
• clear off
• clear out
• shove (off)
• evacuate
• escape
• take off
• step (along)
• start

Examples of peel off in a Sentence

it's rude to peel off like that without thanking your host

peeled off the wet clothes and tossed them over the shower rod

Recent Examples on the Web

There will be multiple tranches of insider stock peeling off as part of the novel way the deal is structured. —Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 May 2026

For people managing diabetes or tracking metabolic health, a CGM that peels off in the shower, slides loose during a workout or catches on a doorframe means lost data, gaps in glucose readings and an expensive replacement. —Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026

After the patterning is achieved, the alpha-molybdenum trioxide layer can simply be peeled off the silica. —Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 24 May 2026

My skin burned and my areola peeled off and my breast bled and was swollen to the size of a watermelon. —Caitlin Shetterly, PEOPLE, 17 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for peel off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff