7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
verb climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
verb bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
verb remove the bark of a tree
originEtymology tree English skin English -ed English skinned From skin (“to remove skin”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming past tenses).
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