| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crush; beat rhythmically |
| Synonyms: | batter, belabor, bruise, buffet, clobber, comminute, drub, hammer, hit, malleate, palpitate, pelt, pestle, powder, pulsate, pulse, pulverize, pummel, stomp, strike, thrash, throb, thump, tramp, triturate, wallop |
| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sore feeling; dull pain |
| Synonyms: | anguish, hurt, misery, pang, pounding, smarting, soreness, spasm, suffering, throb, throbbing, throe, twinge |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain |
| Antonyms: | comfort, ease, health, relief |
| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical |
| Synonyms: | be sore, hurt, pain, pound, smart, suffer, throb, twinge |
| Main Entry: | bang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | moving by hitting hard |
| Synonyms: | bash, beat, bump, clatter, collide, crash, hammer, hit, knock, pound, pummel, rap, slam, smash, strike, thump, whack |
| Main Entry: | batter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strike and damage |
| Synonyms: | assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, contuse, cripple, crush, dash, deface, demolish, destroy, disable, disfigure, drub, hurt, injure, lacerate, lambaste, lame, lash, mangle, mar, maul, mutilate, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punish, ruin, shatter, smash, thrash, wallop, wreck |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure by striking |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, bat, batter, belt, box, break, bruise, buffet, cane, castigate, clout, club, collide, crush, cudgel, drub, flagellate, flail, flog, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste*, lash, lick*, maltreat, mash, maul, pelt, pound, pummel, punch, punish, ram, rap, slap, slug, smack, spank, strike, swat, thrash, thresh, thump, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, guard, help, protect |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forge |
| Synonyms: | fashion, form, hammer, malleate, model, pound, shape, work |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throb |
| Synonyms: | agitate, alternate, bob, bounce, buffet, flap, flicker, fluctuate, flutter, heave, jerk, jounce, oscillate, palpitate, pitch, pound, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, ripple, shake, shiver, swing, thrill, throb, thump, tremble, twitch, undulate, vibrate, writhe |
| Main Entry: | belabor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dwell on |
| Synonyms: | beat a dead horse, go on about, hammer home, overwork, pound, rehash, repeat |