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as in cheated
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
got his revenge on the dirty swindler who had skinned him
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as in whipped
to defeat by a large margin
we simply got skinned in the interoffice softball tournament
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Recent Examples of skinned
Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
Angela, a light-skinned Black woman, leaves her home in Philadelphia after the death of her parents and consciously chooses to hide her racial identity.
—Glory Edim
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
This indicates the victims were skinned, the flesh removed, the bodies disarticulated, and then cooked and eaten.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Jason Momoa, who was born to star in a Street Fighter movie, will glower as Blanka, the green-skinned, orange-haired, electricity-spouting creature that debuted in Street Fighter II.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
Angela, a light-skinned Black woman, leaves her home in Philadelphia after the death of her parents and consciously chooses to hide her racial identity.
—Glory Edim
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
My buddies hang skinned, whole deer in a walk-in cooler for up to two weeks before butchering.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
This indicates the victims were skinned, the flesh removed, the bodies disarticulated, and then cooked and eaten.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skinned
Verb
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Keep your eyes peeled for other seasonal fragrances to be released throughout the holiday season, including Cozy Winter Cottage.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Physical pieces can still be peeled from packaging and scanned into the app, while digital pieces appear automatically with certain app orders.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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When Swift acts in a way that is seemingly out of character, audiences feel cheated.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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The scandal exposed how some wealthy families cheated and bribed to secure spots for their children at elite universities, sparking nationwide outrage over denied opportunities for more deserving students.—
Hanna Park,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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Hakeem actually whipped his members to shut the government down.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Folding whipped topping gently into the pudding mixture keeps the filling fluffy and mousse-like.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Several South Shore residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the pre-dawn raid in Chicago.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The man stands just beyond a vivid swirl of similarly unclothed American Indians with discolored bodies, a jarring imagining of the senseless violence and disease that ravaged the Ohlone people, who first settled in the coastal Northern California land that now comprises much of the Bay Area.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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Sofia Coppola’s cult-favorite (if historically murky-at-best) 2006 film Marie Antoinette plucked the queen from history-book pages and pasted her on contemporary mood boards.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
2 Oct. 2025
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The kiss cam focused not on the attendees, but on couples plucked from Netflix’s various reality dating shows.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The new study suggests that the ship probably sank from an explosion, which caused the shots stored near gunpowder to fly around and get flattened.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Sep. 2025
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Viewing their actions and ideas strictly through a Cold War lens has oversimplified Korean hopes and ambitions and flattened the complexity of their post-liberation experience.—
Kornel Chang
September 19,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Meet Nashville's new crime-fighting Clydesdale Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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While ultrafast and squeezed light pulses have been separately used for transmitting data, combining them enhances both speed and security.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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After being heavily bombed in WWII, Birmingham is building a better future out of concrete and steel.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
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Set in Britain in 1953, the series will follow a new generation of the Shelby family as Birmingham tries to build a better future out of concrete and steel after being heavily bombed in WWII.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skinned. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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