Synonyms of bashing

bashing 1 of 2

noun

as in hammering

Related Words

• hammering
• thrashing
• pounding
• licking
• pummeling
• blow
• bludgeoning
• lambasting
• battering
• clobbering
• thump
• hit
• slap
• knock
• buffet
• punch
• rap
• encounter
• contact
• meeting
• shock
• touch
• impact
• collision
• impingement
• bump
• jolt
• slam
• concussion
• kick
• crash
• strike
• jar
• smash
• jounce
• wallop

bashing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of bash

1

as in bumping

to come into usually forceful contact with something

the car bashed into the tree with glass-shattering force

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bumping
• slamming
• banging
• colliding
• smashing
• crashing
• ramming
• knocking
• hitting
• impinging
• impacting
• thudding
• swiping
• striking
• glancing
• bouncing
• scraping
• skipping
• contacting
• pushing
• brushing
• sweeping
• kissing
• touching
• rebounding
• ricocheting
• skimming
• shaving
• landing
• clunking
• nudging
• grazing
• caroming
• jostling
• pressing
• bulldozing
• muscling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• skirting

2

as in slamming

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

you have to bash that door hard in order to get it open

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slamming
• slapping
• hitting
• smacking
• knocking
• banging
• punching
• whacking
• clapping
• pounding
• striking
• clipping
• swiping
• cracking
• kicking
• batting
• hammering
• thumping
• nailing
• poking
• pushing
• shoving
• tapping
• jabbing
• boxing
• licking
• swatting
• clobbering
• bludgeoning
• thwacking
• slugging
• smiting
• bobbing
• clouting
• bopping
• tagging
• flicking
• zapping
• pasting
• chopping
• stabbing
• rapping
• socking
• bonking
• slogging
• busting
• bumping
• belting
• clocking
• stroking
• biffing
• whaling
• walloping
• beating
• pummeling
• battering
• lambasting
• mauling
• hanging one on
• lashing
• slashing
• mangling
• peppering
• pelting
• dumping
• butting
• roughing
• stamping
• buffeting
• prodding
• cuffing
• whipping
• scuffing
• drubbing
• jostling
• bunging
• flailing
• lacing
• kneeing
• creaming
• bunting
• switching
• decking
• spearing
• thrashing
• pommeling
• flogging
• clubbing
• sapping
• cudgeling
• felling
• bowling (down or over)
• leveling
• knocking down
• sledging
• braining
• sledgehammering
• caning
• sucker punching
• flooring
• conking
• skulling
• rabbit-punching
• beaning

3

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

the angry child kept bashing her toy with a hammer until it broke

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

4

as in attacking

to criticize harshly and usually publicly

in all of talk radio no other host seems to enjoy bashing liberals as much as he does

Synonyms & Similar Words

• attacking
• slamming
• scolding
• criticizing
• blasting
• abusing
• insulting
• savaging
• assailing
• excoriating
• lambasting
• castigating
• scathing
• trashing
• cursing
• jumping (on)
• tying into
• harassing
• belaboring
• berating
• vituperating
• sailing into
• reviling
• potshotting
• haranguing
• reprimanding
• disparaging
• belittling
• blaspheming
• slandering
• beating up on
• vilifying
• whipping
• lighting into
• harrying
• chiding
• affronting
• execrating
• chastising
• slurring
• libeling
• bad-mouthing
• profaning
• fulminating
• imprecating
• rebuking
• traducing
• lacing (into)
• lashing (out)
• aspersing
• blackguarding
• putting down

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• praising
• commending
• complimenting
• hailing
• lauding
• acclaiming

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bashing

Noun

Again, helicopter parents aren’t new, and there’s a risk that this gets turned into even more Gen Z bashing. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 6 Aug. 2026

Finally, how did Jason’s bashing of kitchen items compare to Evel Dick’s and Josh’s? — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026

Whether the bashing has any immediate political implications for the lawmakers remains to be seen. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 4 June 2026

But more recently, Japan-bashing has become the core of a strident Chinese nationalism, with disastrous consequences. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 2 June 2026

Britain’s surging Green Party is making the bashing of Israel a centerpiece of its platform. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

The target of our petty president’s latest bashing is Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, who seems to be a guy with Midwestern common sense. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026

Which seems like the anxiety Chalamet was trying to express with his needless opera bashing. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026

Several former players have had enough of the Bam bashing. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026

Verb

In an earlier episode, Pam confronts Grace’s mother about abusing her daughter and ends up bashing in the woman’s head with a meat tenderizer — which sounds like a pivotal moment but plays more like a side quest. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

In the meantime, some fans have been celebrating the meme coin’s plummeting value all the while bashing the leaks. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Hilton’s edgy attitude and pugnacious put-downs would place him right at home among the network’s collection of trolls, provocateurs and Democrat-bashing gargoyles. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

So the aim definitely wasn’t to go out there and be police bashing in in any way. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Rarely does a day go by that police in one suburb or another aren’t responding to a burglary involving thieves bashing their way into video gambling terminals. — Charles Keeshan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

One day after the decision was made, signs bashing Watson were taped onto the statue of Browns great Jim Brown at Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland. — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, posted on X in response to Trump’s comments on Friday, bashing the United States and rejecting the idea that the strait could fall out of Iranian control. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026

Some sequences, namely one particular head-bashing, go on for so long that the camera’s unblinking eye becomes humorous. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026