| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | hit hard |
| Synonyms: | beat, belt, bop, buffet, chop, clout, cuff, ding, nail, paste, punch, slap, smack, smash, soak, whack |
| Antonyms: | tap |
| Main Entry: | strike |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit hard |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, beat, boff, bonk, box, buffet, bump into, chastise, clash, clobber, clout, collide, conk, crash, cuff, drive, force, hammer, impel, knock, percuss, plant*, pop*, pound, pummel, punch, punish, run into, slap, slug, smack, smash into, sock, swat, thrust, thump, touch, wallop, whop |
| Notes: | to put up a tent is to pitch it; to take down a tent is to strike it |
| Antonyms: | tap |
| Main Entry: | struggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight, wrestle |
| Synonyms: | battle, brawl, buck, bump heads, compete, contend, contest, cross swords, go up against, grapple, hassle, lock horns, put up a fight, romp, rough-house, row, scrap, scuffle, shuffle, slug, smack, tangle |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | swat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit |
| Synonyms: | beat, belt, biff, box, buffet, clobber, clout, cuff, ding, knock, slap, slug, smack, smash, sock, strike, wallop, whack |
| Main Entry: | swipe |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | hit |
| Synonyms: | bash, blow, clip, clout, clump, cuff, knock, lash out, lick, rap, slap, smack, sock, strike, swat, wallop, wipe |
| Main Entry: | thrust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push hard |
| Synonyms: | advance, assail, assault, attack, bear down, boost, buck, butt, chuck, chunk, clip, clout, crowd, cut, dig, drive, elbow, embed, fire, force, heave, hump, impale, impel, interject, jab, jam, jostle, lob, lunge, nick, nudge, peg, pierce, pitch, plunge, poke, pour it on, press, prod, propel, punch, push forward, put, railroad, ram, run, shove, sink, sling, smack, stab*, stick, toss, transfix, urge, wham |
| Antonyms: | pull |
| Main Entry: | thud/thump |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | dull crash; dull sound |
| Synonyms: | bang, beat, blow, clonk, clout, clump, clunk, fall, flutter, hammer, hit, knock, plop, poke, pound, pounding, pulse, rap, slap, smack, strike, throb, thunk, thwack, wallop, whack |
| Main Entry: | wallop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat, hit |
| Synonyms: | bam, bash, batter, belt, blast, boff, bop, buffet, bushwhack, clobber, drub, hide, lambaste*, paste, pelt, plant one, pound, pummel, punch, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, sock, strike, swat, take out, tan*, thrash, thump, whack, wham, whomp, zap |
| Main Entry: | thwack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit |
| Synonyms: | bang, blow, bop, drive, force, knock, paddle, pound, rap, smack, smite, sock, strike, thrash, thump, wallop, whack |