{i} stripping off of a peel or rind; peeled-off piece of fruit or vegetable (such as potato skin); act of a thing that peels, act of a person who peels; loss of epidermis, stripping off of the outermost layer of skin (Medicine); cosmetic method of removing dead skin cells from the body and face, exfoliation, cosmetic method of removal of the epidermis
The failure of paint film to adhere to its substrate Peeling results when contaminated surfaces are painted, when there is excessive difference between paint and surface polarity or thermal expansion, or when there is solvent incompatibility