Synonyms of whipping

whipping 1 of 2

noun

as in beating

failure to win a contest

suffered a whipping that took them out of competition

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beating
• defeat
• loss
• trimming
• licking
• setback
• overthrow
• plastering
• rout
• drubbing
• trouncing
• shellacking
• failure
• lump
• upset
• collapse
• fiasco
• flop
• debacle
• shutout
• lurch
• washout
• whitewash
• débâcle
• nonsuccess
• fizzle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• victory
• success
• triumph
• win
• achievement
• accomplishment
• sweep
• runaway
• blowout
• landslide
• romp
• cakewalk
• walkover
• walkaway

whipping

2 of 2

verb

present participle of whip

1

as in hiding

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible

whipped the animal when it did not move fast enough to please him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hiding
• slashing
• lashing
• flicking
• slapping
• flogging
• switching
• cutting
• thrashing
• spanking
• hitting
• flailing
• scourging
• knocking
• flagellating
• licking
• punching
• smacking
• tanning
• banging
• pounding
• horsewhipping
• whacking
• strapping
• leathering
• clipping
• mauling
• birching
• whaling
• beating
• batting
• swiping
• clapping
• thumping
• cowhiding
• caning
• rawhiding
• swatting
• boxing
• pelting
• battering
• cracking
• cudgelling
• cudgeling
• pummeling
• thwacking
• clubbing
• socking
• bashing
• hammering
• paddling
• pummelling
• cuffing
• quirting
• clobbering
• slugging
• smiting
• bopping
• pasting
• knouting
• clouting
• mangling
• bludgeoning
• lathering
• roughing
• walloping
• touching up
• buffeting
• busting
• belting
• pistol-whipping
• slogging
• drubbing
• basting
• lambasting
• whopping
• working over
• whupping
• whapping
• blackjacking
• threshing
• slating
• lacing
• bunging
• lamming
• fustigating
• fibbing
• tromping
• belaboring
• pommelling
• pommeling

2

as in throwing

to defeat by a large margin

we whipped them 13-0 in the last game

Synonyms & Similar Words

• throwing
• beating
• burying
• overcoming
• thrashing
• bombing
• trimming
• dusting
• creaming
• flattening
• mastering
• clobbering
• pasting
• smothering
• annihilating
• routing
• topping
• taking
• upsetting
• walloping
• trouncing
• skinning
• drubbing
• smoking
• whupping
• waxing
• whopping
• whapping
• sweeping
• whomping
• blowing away
• tromping
• conquering
• scoring
• shellacking
• exceeding
• succeeding
• destroying
• overwhelming
• dispatching
• surpassing
• crushing
• licking
• capping
• beating the pants off
• eating alive
• running rings around
• running circles around
• skunking
• subduing
• wiping the ground with
• finishing
• wiping the floor with
• snowing under
• slaughtering
• subjugating
• surmounting
• overthrowing
• vanquishing
• hurdling
• overpowering
• upending
• prevailing (over)
• winning (against)
• outdoing
• besting
• overbearing
• transcending
• triumphing (over)
• eclipsing
• knocking over
• breaking
• outshining
• outdistancing
• bettering
• outstripping
• excelling
• knocking off
• overtopping
• flourishing
• overmatching
• edging (out)
• acing (out)
• sinking
• pipping
• worsting
• outfighting
• nosing out
• doing in

3

as in swinging

to change the course or direction of (something)

any more complaints and I'm whipping this car around and heading back home

Synonyms & Similar Words

• swinging
• turning
• deflecting
• shifting
• diverting
• veering
• redirecting
• moving
• whirling
• wheeling
• switching
• twisting
• swiveling
• deviating
• shunting
• swaying
• zigzagging
• averting
• transferring
• swerving
• curving
• swivelling
• bending
• reversing
• rechanneling
• sidetracking
• turning back

4

as in flapping

to move or cause to move with a striking motion

her hair whipped in the wind

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flapping
• fluttering
• flailing
• beating
• waving
• swinging
• flopping
• flicking
• knocking
• swaying
• smacking
• pounding
• banging
• battering
• thumping
• flickering
• flitting
• spanking
• oscillating
• fanning
• throbbing
• buffeting
• pulsing
• undulating
• palpitating

5

as in lashing

to strike repeatedly

huge raindrops whipped the windows

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lashing
• licking
• pounding
• hiding
• beating
• slapping
• battering
• pelting
• hitting
• knocking
• doing
• spanking
• punching
• attacking
• smashing
• slamming
• thumping
• assaulting
• chopping
• batting
• pummeling
• flogging
• mauling
• pummelling
• smacking
• hammering
• bashing
• thrashing
• paddling
• bludgeoning
• whacking
• raiding
• lathering
• storming
• buffeting
• switching
• clubbing
• belting
• tanning
• walloping
• slogging
• currying
• drubbing
• lambasting
• boxing
• basting
• whupping
• whopping
• whapping
• working over
• punching out
• slating
• threshing
• lacing
• swiping
• cracking
• birching
• fibbing
• wounding
• tromping
• whaling
• belaboring
• messing (up)
• roughing (up)
• rushing
• swatting
• pommelling
• strapping
• thwacking
• pasting
• pommeling
• cuffing
• socking
• clobbering
• cudgelling
• cudgeling
• clouting
• caning
• assailing
• beating up on
• bunging up
• flagellating
• scourging
• descending (on or upon)
• busting
• jumping (on)
• whomping
• whamming
• laying on
• lacerating
• besetting
• pouncing (on or upon)
• mutilating
• horsewhipping
• pistol-whipping
• lamming
• leathering
• mangling
• maiming
• goring
• blackjacking
• cowhiding
• rawhiding
• fustigating

Phrases Containing whipping

• whipping boy