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Tanning
Tanning noun - Process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light.
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Hide and tanning are semantically related in flog topic. Sometimes you can use "Hide" instead a verb "Tanning".
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- As used metaphorically, can describe an umpteen-nil football match.note The synonymous American term for this use is a "blowout" (Note that the verb "hide" itself is not used as a synonym for "beat" or "spank"- that would be "tanning your/someone's hide".)
Source: Useful Notes / British English -
My Side of the Mountain has the protagonist kill a deer through use of traps, and the process of tanning its hide is long, complicated, and detailed.
Source: Nemean Skinning -
SpongeBob ends up tanning too much and becoming "sun bleached", and the episode is about his efforts to hide this fact until his secret is revealed at the party and Craig, recognizing his pale state for what it is, worships the ground upon which SpongeBob walks for his devotion to tanning.
Source: But Not Too White
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Tanning and Hide. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/tanning
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