Synonyms of battering

battering 1 of 2

noun

as in pounding

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

battering

2 of 2

verb

present participle of batter

1

as in lashing

to strike repeatedly

children battered the piñata until it broke open

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in bombing

to use bombs or artillery against

planes battered the city for weeks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bombing
• attacking
• bombarding
• shelling
• pounding
• blitzing
• ravaging
• cannonading
• assaulting
• blitzkrieging
• raking
• hitting
• strafing
• enfilading
• assailing
• devastating
• striking