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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 peeling
 剝皮,剝下的皮

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Peel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peeled p. pr. & vb. n. Peeling.]
 1. To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
    The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.   --Shak.
 2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 peeling
      adj : having the paint loose and peeling away; "a dilapidated
            house with peeling paint"; "peeling row houses"
      n : loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming
          off in scales [syn: desquamation, shedding]