Synonyms of skinning

skinning 1 of 2

noun

as in swindling

Related Words

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

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
• hustling
• sticking
• beating
• screwing
• doing
• bleeding
• chiseling
• fiddling
• reaming
• gaffing
• tricking
• hosing
• swindling
• deceiving
• fleecing
• rooking
• exploiting
• defrauding
• diddling
• shorting
• victimizing
• conning
• mulcting
• suckering
• stiffing
• 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
• roping (in)
• bamboozling
• double-crossing
• 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
• flattening
• bombing
• routing
• mastering
• pasting
• throwing
• dusting
• beating
• thrashing
• annihilating
• smoking
• upsetting
• creaming
• waxing
• taking
• blowing away
• smothering
• topping
• tromping
• clobbering
• whopping
• trouncing
• scoring
• whomping
• whupping
• slaughtering
• destroying
• walloping
• conquering
• licking
• dispatching
• succeeding
• eating alive
• shellacking
• capping
• sweeping
• running circles around
• crushing
• beating the pants off
• skunking
• drubbing
• snowing under
• overwhelming
• exceeding
• surpassing
• 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
• edging (out)
• outshining
• eclipsing
• outstripping
• overtopping
• outdistancing
• breaking
• overmatching
• sinking
• worsting
• overbearing
• acing (out)
• pipping
• doing in
• nosing out
• outfighting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of skinning

Noun

The United States will compete in the relay, which starts with a section of skinning — essentially racing uphill with a free heel and climbing skins glued to the skis. — The Sports Desk, NBC news, 18 Feb. 2026

Nicknamed skimo, ski mountaineering combines uphill skiing (skinning), technical climbing (bootpacking) and downhill skiing. — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026

Once the animal gets to the processor, the first thing that happens is the skinning process. — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Nov. 2025

That assumes your startup is developing artificial intelligence tools for cat-skinning. — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025

Verb

Yamaguchi prepared each course live, skinning a pike conger or breaking down live lobsters from his perch behind the grill. — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026

If hunting or skinning animals, use gloves, and cook game meat thoroughly before eating. — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

If hunting, trapping or skinning animals, use gloves when handling animals and cook game meat thoroughly before eating, according to the CDC. — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

The general public is advised to avoid close contact with armadillos, including handling, skinning or eating. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 29 July 2026

The few survivors found work herding and skinning the cattle that had overrun their former hunting grounds. — Literary Hub, 29 July 2026

In tight spaces where a straight driver can't complete a full rotation, that elbow geometry is the difference between finishing the job and abandoning it after hurting your wrist, skinning your knuckles, and questioning your life choices. — Omar Kardoudi march 05, New Atlas, 5 Mar. 2026

Then the athletes rip off the skins and ski a short downhill portion before returning to climbing, this time with a combination of skinning and bootpacking (dashing uphill in their ski boots, with skis secured to a backpack). — The Sports Desk, NBC news, 18 Feb. 2026

This can include field dressing, skinning, butchering into various cuts and packaging. — Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025