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whaling
adjective as in giant
adjective as in massy
Weak matches
adjective as in mastodonic
adjective as in pythonic
Weak matches
adjective as in walloping
noun as in defeat
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in licking
Strongest match
Strong matches
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- destruction
- discomfiture
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whitewashing
noun as in thrashing
Strong matches
noun as in vanquishment
Weak matches
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- defeasance
- destruction
- discomfiture
- downthrow
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- insuccess
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- licking
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whipping
- whitewashing
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Example Sentences
His great grandfather sailed from Cape Verde and was involved in the whaling industry of Nantucket Island, Mass.
The Japanese will have to give up whaling “research” that killed many hundreds of the huge sea mammals each year.
The Court concluded that the hunts are actually whaling expeditions, not scientific research as Japan has claimed for many years.
Many argued that the feasibility study itself was commercial whaling.
I do have a certain amount of moral discomfort because of the situation with whaling.
And as for this other thing—the industrial side of it: that's a large order; a whaling big order.
The business isn't what it was; in the old days whale-oil was worth a great deal and whaling was a good business.
Well, if the oil is replaced and whalebone has no value, what is to be got out of whaling now, then?
But Portsmouth is not the place for whaling vessels, not one such being there.
Five new whalers are to be added to the whaling fleet of Peterhead next season.
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On this page you'll find 415 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whaling, such as: big, colossal, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, and huge.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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