Synonyms of skunking

skunking

verb

present participle of skunk

1

as in overcoming

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• overcoming
• whipping
• bombing
• upsetting
• burying
• thrashing
• trouncing
• throwing
• smoking
• routing
• dusting
• beating
• smothering
• annihilating
• drubbing
• shellacking
• mastering
• trimming
• flattening
• whopping
• overwhelming
• skinning
• pasting
• clobbering
• creaming
• waxing
• blowing away
• walloping
• topping
• taking
• whupping
• scoring
• tromping
• whomping
• succeeding
• surpassing
• conquering
• sweeping
• snowing under
• capping
• exceeding
• crushing
• eating alive
• dispatching
• destroying
• beating the pants off
• vanquishing
• running circles around
• licking
• overpowering
• subduing
• wiping the floor with
• finishing
• besting
• overmatching
• prevailing (over)
• surmounting
• winning (against)
• slaughtering
• upending
• eclipsing
• outdistancing
• overthrowing
• subjugating
• transcending
• triumphing (over)
• overbearing
• outshining
• knocking over
• hurdling
• outdoing
• overtopping
• bettering
• outstripping
• worsting
• knocking off
• outfighting
• flourishing
• excelling
• sinking
• edging (out)
• pipping
• breaking
• acing (out)
• doing in
• nosing out

2

as in defeating

to achieve a victory over

our football team consistently skunks our traditional rivals Thanksgiving after Thanksgiving

Synonyms & Similar Words

• defeating
• overcoming
• mastering
• beating
• taking
• getting
• conquering
• dispatching
• stopping
• overmatching
• subduing
• surmounting
• licking
• besting
• overbearing
• upending
• succeeding
• prevailing (over)
• worsting
• trimming
• getting the better of
• winning (against)
• doing down
• triumphing (over)
• getting around
• finishing
• overwhelming
• crushing
• burying
• trouncing
• scoring
• sweeping
• drubbing
• shellacking
• upsetting
• thrashing
• knocking for a loop
• slaughtering
• surpassing
• whipping
• capping
• clobbering
• walloping
• smoking
• bombing
• exceeding
• vanquishing
• routing
• annihilating
• overpowering
• blowing out
• flattening
• topping
• pipping
• skinning
• creaming
• excelling
• flourishing
• blowing away
• waxing
• edging (out)
• nosing out
• unseating
• breaking
• outfighting
• outdistancing
• overthrowing
• eclipsing
• transcending
• subjugating
• outshining
• knocking over
• snowing under
• outdoing
• overtopping
• bettering
• knocking off
• outstripping
• acing (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing (to)
• falling
• going down
• giving up
• failing
• collapsing
• folding
• going under
• flopping
• flunking
• washing out

3

as in cheating

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheating
• stinging
• plucking
• squeezing
• hustling
• beating
• screwing
• sticking
• bleeding
• rooking
• deceiving
• doing
• victimizing
• gaffing
• swindling
• fiddling
• shorting
• suckering
• hosing
• defrauding
• fleecing
• reaming
• shaking down
• tricking
• stiffing
• skinning
• chiseling
• shortchanging
• mulcting
• chousing
• conning
• ripping off
• exploiting
• fooling
• diddling
• nobbling
• bilking
• thimblerigging
• taking for a ride
• cozening
• euchring
• betraying
• doing in
• taking to the cleaners
• wrenching
• soaking
• flimflamming
• clipping
• gulling
• gouging
• selling a bill of goods to
• nicking
• extorting
• milking
• wringing
• wresting
• overcharging
• duping
• bitching
• bamboozling
• roping (in)
• double-crossing
• fast-talking