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

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

In her testimony on March 24, Arielle claimed Gerhardt tried to pull her to the edge of a steep cliff before trying to inject her with an unknown substance and eventually bashing her head with a rock. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 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

Chris Dowling’s film is earnest in its attempt to extract specifically Christian life lessons from a familiar tale of manchildren forced into growing up, and goes pretty light on the Bible-bashing relative to others in its cinematic church. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 July 2026

Responding officers found a male who was allegedly bashing someone in the head with a baseball bat, Rosado said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

The left-handed slugger was mashing balls into the stratosphere, bashing nine to set the tone against Contreras. — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026

Others grilled Stonepeak, bashing the firm for its ownership of a company that carries out long-haul deportation flights for the federal government. — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026

The younger brother was also charged with strangulation for putting Campos in a chokehold, as well as criminal mischief for bashing the off-duty cop’s back window following the motoring mayhem that sparked the violent exchange. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026