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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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Marrow also peeled back the curtain on how Louisville balances its revenue-sharing budget.—
Payton Titus,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 Sep. 2025
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Now that the dust has settled, a handful of insiders peeled back the curtain on the meeting that marked the beginning of the end.—
Kevin McCormick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Passed over to his hapless son (Dacre Montgomery), our (anti-)hero wires a shotgun to his head and takes him hostage, claiming that the organization’s business maneuvers cheated him out of a substantial fortune.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
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The woman lives alone, AFP added, citing local media outlets, and was ultimately cheated out of approximately 1 million yen, or about $6,700.—
Jillian Frankel,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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With notes of caramel, maple sugar, and whipped coconut, Ellis Brooklyn’s latest launch proves that sweet can still be sophisticated.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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As the winds whipped across the seaside links-style layout, the competition heated up.—
Tim Corlett,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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Woolf's remains were found unclothed and partially decomposed near the San Joaquin trailhead in Tucson in December 2024.—
Wren Smetana,
AZCentral.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Yet there’s a relaxed comfort to dinner in the airy concrete-floored loft, starting with the Taiwanese sausage that arrives as an early bite, wedged into homemade brioche like a tiny hot dog and plucked up between two fingers.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Orioles plucked him in the Rule 5 draft after a tragic plane crash claimed their top catching prospect.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This stems from the concept of reparations in the popular consciousness being flattened to mean checks for Black people making up for the harms of slavery.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The patient’s tooth is pulled and then flattened, and a small hole is then drilled in the center.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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At one point, Detroit squeezed 38 points out of six possessions, turning a close game into a major reality check for the Bears.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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Why American farmers are feeling squeezed It's been a tough year for America's farmers.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Israel has also bombed Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen in the course of the Gaza conflict.—
Jarrett Renshaw,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Between September 5 and 8, five high-rise buildings were bombed, according to Mahmoud Basal, Gaza’s Civil Defense spokesman.—
Zeena Saifi,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skinned. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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