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Synonyms and Antonyms of batting
- batted the lamp off the table with one strike
banging, bashing, belting, biffing, bludgeoning, bobbing, bonking, bopping, boxing, busting, clapping, clipping, clobbering, clocking, clouting, cracking, hammering, hitting, knocking, nailing, pasting, pounding, punching, rapping, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, striking, swatting, swiping, tagging, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whaling, zapping
battering, beating, buffeting, bunging, chopping, cuffing, drubbing, lacing, lambasting, licking, mangling, mauling, pelting, peppering, pommeling (or pommelling), pummeling (also pummelling), roughing
bunting, flicking, stroking, tapping
bumping, butting, jabbing, jostling, kicking, kneeing, poking, prodding, pushing, shoving, stamping
bowling (down or over), creaming, decking, dumping [slang], felling, flooring, knocking down, leveling (or levelling)
rabbit-punching, sucker punching
caning, clubbing, cudgeling (or cudgelling), flailing, flogging, lashing, sapping, slashing, sledgehammering, sledging, spearing, stabbing, switching, thrashing, whipping
- batted the piñata until it finally broke open
bashing, basting, battering, beating, belaboring, belting, birching, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging up, clubbing, currying, doing, drubbing, fibbing [British], flogging, hammering, hiding, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mauling, messing (up), paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), punching out, roughing (up), slating, slogging, switching, tanning, thrashing, threshing, thumping, tromping, walloping, whaling, whipping, whopping (or whapping), whupping, working over
assailing, assaulting, attacking, besetting, boxing, busting, chopping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cudgeling (or cudgelling), cuffing, descending (on or upon), hitting, jumping (on), knocking, lamming, laying on, pasting, pouncing (on or upon), punching, raiding, rushing, slamming, slapping, smacking, smashing, socking, spanking, storming, swatting, swiping, thwacking, whacking, whamming, whomping
blackjacking, caning, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping, leathering, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, strapping
- on Sunday afternoons we'd pile into Father's car and bat around the countryside
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