Synonyms of batting

batting 1 of 2

noun

1

as in belting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• belting
• hammering
• whipping
• thrashing
• battering
• smashing
• attack
• bashing
• beating
• whaling
• mauling
• pounding
• battery
• licking
• thumping
• pummeling
• lacing
• pelting
• flogging
• injury
• clubbing
• paddling
• buffeting
• assault
• drubbing
• cudgelling
• pummelling
• socking
• cudgeling
• bludgeoning
• pommelling
• walloping
• harm
• pommeling
• damage
• hurt
• threat
• detriment
• terror
• turbulence
• impairment
• onslaught
• rupture
• riot
• tromping
• fury
• shock
• savagery
• revolt
• barbarity
• frenzy
• outrage
• upheaval
• rampage
• outbreak
• rage
• brutality
• storm
• bulldozing
• paroxysm
• bullying
• tumult
• foul play
• uproar
• browbeating
• violence
• hectoring
• maiming
• crippling
• mutilation
• force
• strong-arming
• mayhem

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pacifism
• nonviolence
• pacificism

• pacifism
• nonviolence
• pacificism

2

as in fur

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fur
• nap
• pile
• lint
• floss
• fluff
• down
• fuzz

batting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of bat

1

as in hitting

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

batted the lamp off the table with one strike

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

batted the piñata until it finally broke open

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

3

as in roaming

to move about from place to place aimlessly

on Sunday afternoons we'd pile into Father's car and bat around the countryside

Synonyms & Similar Words

• roaming
• wandering
• drifting
• cruising
• strolling
• floating
• roving
• meandering
• ranging
• knocking (about)
• gallivanting
• rambling
• gadding (about)
• sauntering
• traipsing
• galavanting
• ambling
• maundering
• mooching
• kicking around
• moping
• dawdling
• straying
• tramping
• straggling
• gypsying
• milling (about or around)
• hoboing
• vagabonding