skunking
- 1Present participle and gerund of skunk.
By halftime they were skunking the visitors, who still had no points on the board.
She took quiet pride in skunking her brother at every card game they played.
Note
One spelling does two grammatical jobs. After a form of be it is the participle of a progressive (they were skunking the visitors). After a preposition it is a gerund naming the act (pride in skunking her brother). In the shutout meaning it is US slang and takes a direct object. The same form also carries the intransitive sense of spoiling, so something that is skunking in that sense takes no object at all.
skunking is a form of skunk
skunk, verb: To defeat an opponent so thoroughly that they fail to score any points. Full entry
- Spelling
- skunk → skunking: add -ing
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