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paddling
noun as in boating
noun as in corporal punishment
Weak matches
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
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whaling
- 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
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whaling
- whipping
- whitewashing
Example Sentences
Paddling across the glassy flat surface feels like sliding through warm butter.
With every race and creed of the the world paddling on a lake in Queens, I was eager to see how a team can win or lose.
Maybe we westerners still have a bit to learn about working (or paddling) as a group for the greater good.
While other brands were paddling madly to stay afloat, Bottega Veneta was considered dead in the water.
All of which is to say that barring a stroke of luck, the West is up the creek without a paddle—and can't stop paddling.
There, behind the sleigh, running and leaping and paddling and waddling and frisking and scampering came a strange procession.
They carried their canoe down to the shore, and in a moment were paddling down the island toward the narrows.
They were often seen paddling their tiny canoes, or sliding down the great rocks on the banks.
I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me.
She kept on, and presently the boys in the canoe ceased their paddling and watched her approach.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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