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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pummel, thrash |
| Synonyms: | batter, beat, berate, blister, clobber, club, drub, lambaste, lash, maul, pelt, revile, scold, trounce, wallop, whip, whomp |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conquer in athletic contest |
| Synonyms: | KO, beat, bust, clobber, cream*, deck, drop*, drub, edge, flax, flog, floor*, knock out, lambaste*, lick, outhit, outjump, outplay, outrun, overpower, plow under, pommel, pound*, powder, pulverize, run roughshod over, skin*, steamroll, take, take it all, take to cleaners, tan*, thrash, total, trounce, wallop, whack, whomp, win, work over, zap |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Antonyms: | give up, lose, surrender |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flog |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | whip, lash |
| Synonyms: | beat, belt, cane, castigate, chastise, ferule, flagellate, flax, flay, give the cat o'nine tails, hide, hit, larrup, lather, leather, paddle, scourge, spank, strike, stripe, tan one's hide, thrash, trounce, wax, whack, whale, whomp, whop |
| Main Entry: | hammer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat, hit |
| Synonyms: | bang, batter, bear down, clobber, defeat, drive, drub, fashion, forge, form, knock, make, pound, pummel, shape, strike, tap, thrash, trounce, wallop, whack, whomp |
| Main Entry: | tan |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flog, whip |
| Synonyms: | baste, beat, belt, cane, dust someone's britches, flay, hide, hit, lambaste, lash, leather, paddle, paddlewhack, punish, spank, strap, strike, switch, tan one's hide, thrash, warm someone's seat, wax, whack, whale, whomp |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit repeatedly |
| Synonyms: | bash, beat, birch, bludgeon, cane, castigate, chastise, cudgel, drub, ferule, flagellate, flog, hide, larrup, lash, lather, punish, scourge, spank, strap, strike, switch, tan, thrash, trash, wallop, whale, whomp |
| Main Entry: | whip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat soundly |
| Synonyms: | beat, best, blast, clobber, conquer, drub, hammer*, kill*, lambaste, lick*, mop up, outdo, overcome, overpower, overrun, overwhelm, put away, rout, run circles around, settle, steamroller, subdue, take apart, thrash, top, trim*, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wax, whomp, worst* |
| Antonyms: | lose, surrender |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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