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Being victorious, typically as revenge for a previous defeat

(informal) Present participle for to comprehensively defeat

Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain

Verb

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Being victorious, typically as revenge for a previous defeat

wiping the floor with

getting the better of

taking to the cleaners

pulverizing^US

bringing someone to their knees

pulverising^UK

blowing out of the water

giving someone a drubbing

giving someone a hiding

walking over

winning a resounding victory over

giving someone a pasting

gaining a victory over

running roughshod over

winning a victory over

getting the upper hand

KO'ing

swamping

going one better than

gaining the advantage over

putting someone in their place

gaining the upper hand over

beating down

getting the upper hand over

gaining ascendancy over

finding a solution to

finding the solution to

taking possession of

finding the answer to

running circles around

putting the kibosh on

bringing under control

getting under control

more ❯

“I bet you could skunk him at cribbage.”

Verb

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(informal) Present participle for to comprehensively defeat

wiping the floor with

pulverizing^US

pulverising^UK

taking to the cleaners

turning inside out

marmalizing

giving someone a drubbing

tanking

winning a resounding victory over

blowing out of the water

vanquishing

bringing someone to their knees

getting the better of

triumphing over

giving someone a hiding

giving someone a pasting

running circles around

pummelling^UK

beating the pants off

knocking the stuffing out of

throwing back in confusion

more ❯

“After that, we went to play a round of pool so that I could redeem myself, and we both thought for a bit that I was going to skunk him.”

Verb

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Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain

victimising^UK

victimizing^US

chiseling^US

chiselling^UK

taking to the cleaners

misleading

hoaxing

finagling

pulling a fast one on

selling a bill of goods to

leading up the garden path

screwing over

giving someone a bum steer

selling down the river

selling a bill of goods

having on

setting up

doing out of

doing someone in the eye

balking^US

baulking^UK

leading down the garden path

putting the screws to

sucking the life out of

bleeding someone of something

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

getting the better of

putting on the wrong track

throwing off the scent

hooking

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

putting on false front

pulling strings

playing games

sending on a wild goose chase

putting up smoke screen

giving wrong information to

wrong steering

playing trick on

leading up garden path

weaseling^US

weaselling^UK

pulling someone's leg

playing for a fool

flamming

giving the wrong impression

hocus-pocusing

putting someone up to something

failing

biasing^US

biassing^UK

stealing someone blind

slipping something over on

making use of

playing fast and loose with

pulling something funny

hitting below the belt

giving the runaround

sending on a wild-goose chase

letting down

enticing

playing someone false

twisting around your little finger

making somebody look an idiot

making a monkey out of

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

going one better than

more ❯

“I did not ask at the time, but now it seems like they may have been trying to skunk me.”

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