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剥
to skin (one's knee); to graze; to scratch
to take a veneer off something
highwayman; bandit; brigand; mugger
highway robbery; holdup; mugging
withdrawal of loan credit (e.g. by a bank); retraction of credit; insistence on repayment
to reveal one's true colors
little by little (recovering after an illness); slowly but surely
to be stripped of all one has
peeler (kitchen utensil)
debarker (i.e. for removing bark from a tree); barker
Medicine
placental abruption; abruptio placentae; premature separation of the normally implanted placenta
Medicine
retinal detachment
Idiomatic expression
to unmask (someone's true nature)
shelled shrimp (that have also had their heads removed)
(a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs
