skin | Definition of skin

skin

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of skin

1 to remove the natural covering of

I prefer not to skin potatoes before mashing them

Synonyms of skin

bark, flay, hull, husk, peel, shell, shuck

Words Related to skin

bare, denude, expose, scale, strip

2 to rob by the use of trickery or threats

got his revenge on the dirty swindler who had skinned him

Synonyms of skin

beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize

Words Related to skin

extort, wrench, wrest, wring

clip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soak

deceive, dupe, fool, gull, trick

betray, bitch, double-cross

bamboozle, fast-talk

Phrases Synonymous with skin

sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners

3 to defeat by a large margin

we simply got skinned in the interoffice softball tournament

Synonyms of skin

annihilate, blow away, bomb, bury, clobber, cream, drub, dust, flatten, paste, rout, shellac, skunk, smoke [slang], smother, snow under, thrash, trim, tromp, trounce, wallop, wax [slang], whip, whomp, whop (or whap), whup

Words Related to skin

beat, best, conquer, dispatch, hurdle, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), subdue, surmount, take, throw, triumph (over), win (against), worst

crush, knock off, knock over, overpower, overthrow, overwhelm, subjugate, upend, vanquish

ace (out), better, eclipse, exceed, outdistance, outdo, outfight, outshine, outstrip, overtop, surpass, top, transcend

edge (out), nose out, pip [British]

cap, excel, flourish, score, succeed

break, destroy, do in, finish, sink, slaughter

Phrases Synonymous with skin

beat the pants off, eat alive, run circles around (or run rings around)