Synonyms of belting

belting 1 of 2

noun

as in whipping

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pacifism
• nonviolence
• pacificism

belting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of belt

1

as in hitting

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

belted the baseball out of the park

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in wrapping

to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt

belted the little boy's pants tightly so they would stay up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wrapping
• bandaging
• circling
• girding
• taping
• girthing
• engirding
• engirdling
• banding
• winding
• looping
• girting
• lashing
• girdling
• enwinding
• trussing
• begirding
• tieing up
• roping
• tying up
• swathing
• wiring
• cording
• wreathing
• enchaining
• chaining
• shackling
• enwreathing
• enswathing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unwrapping
• unwinding
• untying
• unshackling
• ungirding
• untieing
• unlashing
• unbinding

3

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

belted the punching bag relentlessly

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

4

as in speeding

to proceed or move quickly

the boy went belting along on his skateboard

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speeding
• driving
• zipping
• hurrying
• travelling
• rushing
• scurrying
• trotting
• flying
• racing
• traveling
• chasing
• running
• jumping
• scooting
• buzzing
• blasting
• blowing
• darting
• tearing
• ripping
• stepping
• ramming
• dashing
• bolting
• barreling
• scuttling
• bowling
• whirling
• blazing
• hurling
• breezing
• zooming
• jogging
• rustling
• careering
• hustling
• pelting
• rocketing
• barrelling
• hurtling
• shooting
• careening
• nipping
• humping
• motoring
• haring
• bundling
• coursing
• galloping
• jetting
• hastening
• whisking
• bustling
• highballing
• cannonballing
• cracking (on)
• hieing
• beating it
• bombing
• hying
• making tracks
• sprinting
• scampering
• flitting
• scudding
• stepping on it
• scuffling
• whizzing
• shaking a leg
• hotfooting (it)
• getting a move on
• streaking
• accelerating
• stampeding
• beetling
• overtaking
• outrunning
• outstripping
• quickening
• outpacing
• stepping out
• arrowing
• catching up
• beelining
• fast-forwarding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• creeping
• crawling
• dragging
• poking
• lingering
• hanging (around or out)
• poking
• strolling
• lagging
• shuffling
• dawdling
• loitering
• sauntering
• ambling
• lumbering
• dallying
• plodding
• tarrying
• slowing (down or up)
• decelerating
• dillydallying