Synonyms of skewering

skewering

verb

present participle of skewer

1

as in stabbing

to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object

let's skewer our marshmallows on these sticks and start toasting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stabbing
• puncturing
• jabbing
• piercing
• picking
• sticking
• pecking
• impaling
• spearing
• spitting
• harpooning
• poking
• transfixing
• spiking
• slicing
• lancing
• goring
• punching
• running through
• transpiercing
• pinking
• perforating
• riddling
• thrusting
• cutting
• pricking
• spindling
• bayoneting
• knifing
• bayonetting
• gimleting
• piking
• pronging
• quilling
• pinpricking
• dirking
• poniarding

2

as in ridiculing

to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter

the satirical comic strip gleefully skewers many of society's sacred cows

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ridiculing
• mocking
• deriding
• taunting
• parodying
• teasing
• jeering
• scouting
• jibing
• gibing
• laughing (at)
• making fun of
• poking fun at
• making sport of
• imitating
• ragging on
• tormenting
• shooting down
• harassing
• disparaging
• targeting
• cocking snooks (at)
• scorning
• belittling
• cocking a snook (at)
• decrying
• satirizing
• lampooning
• baiting
• caricaturing
• razzing
• sneering (at)
• ribbing
• mimicking
• quizzing
• pillorying
• scoffing (at)
• pestering
• heckling
• needling
• riding
• twitting
• aping
• poohing
• harrying
• kidding
• tweaking
• jiving
• bad-mouthing
• pooh-poohing
• rallying
• joshing
• burlesquing
• parroting
• ragging
• chaffing
• hassling
• bugging
• taking off (on)
• putting down
• barracking
• catcalling
• travestying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approving
• endorsing
• commending
• applauding
• sanctioning
• indorsing