shinned

Definition of shinnednext
past tense of shin

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shinned
Verb
  • The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo.
    Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • At another point, a ranger waded through the mud of a mangrove forest and clambered into a mangrove to catch a bird for a blood sample, before doing the same trek in reverse to put it back.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • All of the carcasses that washed ashore had been skinned, Cole said, with some missing their front paws.
    Francie Ebert, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Mom skinned it, went to the pound to find a slightly smaller dog, and stitched the old dog’s skin over the new dog.
    Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
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“Shinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shinned. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.

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