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

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

But Beshear hasn’t turned Trump-bashing into a 24/7 vocation, or a weight-lifting contest where the winner is the critic wielding the heaviest bludgeon. — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026

Powell, known for a cool head and a quiet demeanor, has consistently avoided direct confrontations with Trump, even as the president's personal displeasure with the Fed chair escalated from behind the scenes pressure to public bashing. — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 21 Jan. 2026

Verb

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

So what’s Aiyuk accomplishing by bashing the 49ers repeatedly on social media? — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026

Just last year at this time, Trey Hendrickson was showing up at OTAs in his golf gear holding court with local reporters and bashing the organization just yards away from his teammates. — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 9 June 2026

The book is structured as a quest to figure out why a class of aimless young men in late-Thatcherist Blighty get their kicks out of getting paralytically drunk and bashing one another half to death every weekend. — Leander Schaerlaeckens june 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026