peeling has definitions from the field of biology
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[ adjective ] having the paint loose and peeling away

Examples

"a dilapidated house with peeling paint" "peeling row houses"

Used in print

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

It was a Negro section of peeling row_houses , store-front churches and ragged children .

Related terms

damaged

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[ noun ] (biology) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
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