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skin over

v. grow new skin over an injury

Usage examples of "skin over".

If he let the sword swing as he walked, his belt chafed the skin over his right hip.

It writhed unhappily as she seized it behind the head by her thumbs, forcing the jaws open, then pierced her skin over a vein with its single fang.

The skin over his hipbone was still chafed from wearing the weapon the night before, but maybe he'd get calluses or something.

Throwing the skin over a branch he leaped again into the village upon the opposite side of the great bole, and diving into the shadow of a hut, ran quickly to where lay the caged lion.

She pinched the skin over my ribs and I tried to slap her hand away but you can't do this under water.

There was a slot in the taut, scaled skin over its ribcage like a cross-section of the blade at its widest point: a finger's length by a finger's breadth, and the beastcatcher had felt paving stones grate against his point to end the thrust.

The skin over his ribs crawls, the lumpy breadth of scar tissue scratching like a rope over the bones.

Cut its bark with many names and it will live to grow its skin over them again.