ADJ
- beautiful, clear, fine, flawless, good, healthy, lovely, perfect
- smooth, soft
- translucent
- supple, young, youthful
- wrinkled
- coarse, hard, leathery, rough, tough
- delicate, sensitive
- greasy, oily
- moist
- dry, flaky
- congested
- black, brown, dark, fair, golden, milky, olive, olive-tinged/- tinted, pale, swarthy, white
- bronzed, tanned
- sunburnt
- weathered
- pallid, sallow
- freckled
- raw, tender
- There was a patch of raw skin on my back where the sun had burnt it
- blotchy
- puffy
- I examined the puffy skin under my eyes
- blistered
- hairy
- hairless
- chilled, cold, cool
- facial
- bare, naked
- The sheets felt nice next to his bare skin
- loose
- I picked up the kitten by the loose skin on its neck
- armoured, scaly
- the armoured skin of the rhinoceros
- dead
- A lot of dust is made up of particles of dead skin
VERB + SKIN
- break, burn, damage, irritate
- protect
- nourish, soothe
- shed
- This snake sheds its skin eight times a year
SKIN + VERB
- glisten, glow
- Her skin was glistening with sweat after her run
- age
- They claim that this cream makes the skin age more slowly
- hang, sag
- blister,
- to the doctor
PHRASES
- skin and bone
- The dog lost more and more weight, and was soon little more than skin and bone
ADJ
- animal
- crocodile, goat, leopard, sheep (also sheepskin), etc.
ADJ
- banana, onion, potato, etc.
VERB + SKIN
- peel off, remove burn, peel
- crawl, prickle, tingle
- Just thinking about spiders makes my skin crawl
SKIN + NOUN
- allergy, burns, cancer, complaint, condition, damage, disease, disorder, infection, irritation, lesion, problems, rash
- graft
- clinic
- specialist
- care, cleanser, cream, moisturizer, tonic
- colour, tone
- texture
- type
- cells, tissue
- contact
- Avoid skin contact with the glue
PREP
- against the/your ~
- The sheets felt rough against her sunburnt skin
- beneath the/your ~
- Beneath his skin, the muscles were tight with tension
- in the/ your ~
- The drugs reduce the inflammation in the skin
- on the/your ~
- blisters on the skin
- through the/your ~
- A network of veins showed through his skin
- under the/your ~
- He discovered a lump under his skin so he went