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to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay; to bark
to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of
壁紙を丁寧に剝いでから新しいものを貼った。
I carefully peeled off the wallpaper before putting up the new one.
猟師が仕留めた鹿の皮を剝いだ。
The hunter skinned the deer he had caught.
作業員が古い建物の壁紙を剝いでいる。
Workers are stripping wallpaper off the old building.