skinned over
English
Verb
skinned over
- simple past tense and past participle of skin over
Adjective
skinned over (not comparable)
- Of a wound, covered by a fresh layer of skin.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure:
- Leo also was so much better that I yielded to Billali's often expressed entreaty, and agreed to start at once upon our journey to Kôr, which we were told was the name of the place where the mysterious She lived, though I still feared for its effect upon Leo, and especially lest the motion should cause his wound, which was scarcely skinned over, to break open again.