Synonyms of skinning

skinning 1 of 2

noun

as in chiselling

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chiselling
• swindling
• chiseling
• defrauding
• cheating
• gouging
• extortion
• highway robbery
• overcharging
• fleecing

skinning

2 of 2

verb

present participle of skin

1

as in peeling

to remove the natural covering of

I prefer not to skin potatoes before mashing them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• peeling
• barking
• scaling
• husking
• shucking
• flaying
• shelling
• stripping
• hulling
• exposing
• baring
• paring
• denuding

2

as in plucking

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

got his revenge on the dirty swindler who had skinned him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plucking
• cheating
• squeezing
• stinging
• sticking
• hustling
• beating
• screwing
• doing
• bleeding
• chiselling
• chiseling
• fiddling
• reaming
• gaffing
• tricking
• hosing
• swindling
• exploiting
• deceiving
• fleecing
• rooking
• defrauding
• victimizing
• diddling
• shorting
• conning
• mulcting
• stiffing
• suckering
• shaking down
• bilking
• clipping
• ripping off
• shortchanging
• cozening
• flimflamming
• fooling
• doing in
• thimblerigging
• nobbling
• chousing
• betraying
• taking for a ride
• wrenching
• euchring
• skunking
• gouging
• extorting
• milking
• taking to the cleaners
• nicking
• soaking
• selling a bill of goods to
• duping
• wringing
• wresting
• gulling
• overcharging
• bitching
• double-crossing
• roping (in)
• bamboozling
• fast-talking

3

as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin

we simply got skinned in the interoffice softball tournament

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• burying
• trimming
• overcoming
• bombing
• flattening
• mastering
• routing
• throwing
• pasting
• dusting
• beating
• thrashing
• clobbering
• annihilating
• smoking
• creaming
• trouncing
• topping
• taking
• waxing
• blowing away
• smothering
• upsetting
• tromping
• walloping
• whopping
• whapping
• drubbing
• whomping
• whupping
• scoring
• destroying
• conquering
• slaughtering
• succeeding
• dispatching
• capping
• running rings around
• eating alive
• shellacking
• licking
• sweeping
• running circles around
• crushing
• exceeding
• beating the pants off
• skunking
• snowing under
• surpassing
• overwhelming
• wiping the ground with
• wiping the floor with
• finishing
• subduing
• subjugating
• surmounting
• prevailing (over)
• winning (against)
• vanquishing
• hurdling
• bettering
• transcending
• triumphing (over)
• besting
• overthrowing
• upending
• excelling
• knocking over
• outdoing
• knocking off
• overpowering
• flourishing
• outshining
• edging (out)
• eclipsing
• overbearing
• outstripping
• acing (out)
• breaking
• overtopping
• outdistancing
• overmatching
• sinking
• worsting
• pipping
• doing in
• nosing out
• outfighting