SKUNKED Synonyms: 172 Similar and Opposite Words

skunked

verb

past tense of skunk

as in bombed

to defeat by a large margin we ended up skunking them, as our goalie was able to prevent the other team from scoring a single goal

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as in defeated

to achieve a victory over our football team consistently skunks our traditional rivals Thanksgiving after Thanksgiving

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as in stung

to rob by the use of trickery or threats unwilling to let suppliers skunk him, the restaurant owner inspected every shipment before signing off on it

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Recent Examples of skunked That means two out of three Minnesota turkey hunters are going skunked this spring. —

Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2026

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Imagine being a parent of one of the one hundred and seventy-five girls who died when their school was bombed.

— Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
That put out of business one of the country’s largest Klan organizations, the same group that bombed Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, killing four Black girls.

— Josh Meyer, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026