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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
Lily Wohlner, Allure, 24 Jan. 2026
At long last, with his skinned companions still agonizingly clinging to life beside him, the Jimmies' final victim, Tom (Louis Ashbourne Serkis), is offered an out.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2025
The baby used her tail to smack the bird before taking it underwater, resurfacing to show boaters the bird had been skinned, the group said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
That's a load of actives, so this serum may not be the best for sensitive-skinned folks.
—Lily Wohlner, Allure, 24 Jan. 2026
At long last, with his skinned companions still agonizingly clinging to life beside him, the Jimmies' final victim, Tom (Louis Ashbourne Serkis), is offered an out.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
Verb
Everyone knows that some form of Hamas—skinned of the top echelon of its leadership—has survived and rules the parts of Gaza that Israel never fully occupied.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2025
The baby used her tail to smack the bird before taking it underwater, resurfacing to show boaters the bird had been skinned, the group said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skinned
Adjective
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The film begins with Bardot, then 22 and playing a restless orphan living in Saint-Tropez, lying unclothed on her stomach.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Dec. 2025
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Frye is charged with one count each of capturing/distributing an image of an unclothed person and using a computer to commit a crime.—
Veronica Ortega,
CBS News,
25 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Trousers peeled away to reveal that top block of jeans; a pencil skirt was spliced to create a peplum silhouette.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Feb. 2026
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April 20 – May 20 Keep your eyes peeled for exciting invitations.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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McMann hunted, but never cheated, for offence.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Experts say such scam operations in Cambodia and elsewhere have cheated people around the world out of billions of dollars and tricked people from many countries to work in them under slave-like conditions.—
Sakchai Lalit,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Pierce died Friday after being whipped with a belt and being forced to stand in a cold shower, authorities said.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2026
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Thanks to whipped egg whites, these cookies are airy and crisp on the outside and gooey on the inside.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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On a plywood bookshelf above the twin bed sat a dozen teddy bears of varying age and quality, some patchy and furless.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Over at Azur on Luminara, the menu reinvents itself every two days to mirror the port of call, like someone plucked the best taverna dishes off the coast and casually plated them in front of you.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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This is ideal for decades of sliding across the ice, because bigger mineral grains are more likely to get plucked out by the ice, leaving holes in the surface that could cause unpredictable behavior.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
10 Feb. 2026
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Using fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have produced the most precise measurements yet of the solar system’s largest planet, showing that Jupiter is slightly smaller and more flattened than earlier estimates suggested.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Each character has been leveled by life in some way, resembling the Wayne Thiebaud model on the book’s cover — flattened by misogyny or malignant passive aggression or betrayal.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The scandal erupted at the end of last year when the AI chatbot churned out a barrage of digitally undressed images of women and children in response to requests from users.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children is suing xAI, alleging the company’s Grok AI chatbot created images of her undressed.—
Andrea Guzmán,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Skinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skinned. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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