Synonyms of birches

birches 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of birch

1

as in whips

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible

students at the private school were once routinely birched for violating the rules

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whips
• hides
• lashes
• slashes
• flagellates
• flicks
• switches
• tans
• leathers
• whales
• licks
• scourges
• spanks
• flails
• hits
• bats
• slaps
• horsewhips
• cuts
• knocks
• thrashes
• flogs
• cowhides
• bangs
• punches
• canes
• pounds
• clips
• straps
• mauls
• smacks
• whacks
• boxes
• rawhides
• swipes
• clubs
• socks
• claps
• beats
• thumps
• quirts
• swats
• slugs
• pelts
• knouts
• cudgels
• paddles
• cracks
• cuffs
• slates
• threshes
• lams
• roughs
• hammers
• thwacks
• clouts
• touches up
• smites
• belts
• batters
• laces
• blackjacks
• buffets
• works over
• pastes
• bashes
• bludgeons
• fustigates
• clobbers
• bops
• pistol-whips
• fibs
• pommels
• lathers
• pummels
• bastes
• tromps
• lambasts
• wallops
• whaps
• busts
• belabors
• mangles
• slogs
• lambastes
• whops
• drubs
• bungs
• whups

2

as in licks

to strike repeatedly

always a stern disciplinarian, our father birched anyone who talked back

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licks
• lashes
• pounds
• hides
• whips
• pelts
• batters
• bats
• beats
• spanks
• hits
• thumps
• knocks
• slaps
• attacks
• punches
• does
• assaults
• clubs
• tans
• paddles
• slates
• smashes
• threshes
• boxes
• hammers
• chops
• mauls
• slams
• whales
• belts
• laces
• buffets
• switches
• works over
• whaps
• curries
• storms
• wounds
• bludgeons
• bashes
• raids
• punches out
• fibs
• thrashes
• flogs
• pommels
• lathers
• pummels
• bastes
• tromps
• smacks
• whacks
• lambasts
• drubs
• belabors
• wallops
• canes
• socks
• slogs
• lambastes
• swipes
• roughs (up)
• cracks
• beats up on
• whops
• bungs up
• messes (up)
• flagellates
• descends (on or upon)
• rushes
• cuffs
• swats
• jumps (on)
• thwacks
• whups
• straps
• lams
• clouts
• leathers
• cudgels
• lays on
• pastes
• besets
• scourges
• whams
• assails
• lacerates
• clobbers
• horsewhips
• pounces (on or upon)
• cowhides
• busts
• blackjacks
• whomps
• pistol-whips
• mutilates
• gores
• fustigates
• maims
• rawhides
• mangles

birches

2 of 2

noun

plural of birch

as in hickories

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hickories
• rattans
• crops
• straps
• quirts
• knouts
• cowhides
• bullwhips
• blacksnakes
• rawhides
• whips
• lashes
• staves
• canes
• floggers
• cat-o'-nine-tails
• switches
• batons
• scourges
• bats
• cudgels
• billy clubs
• flails
• billies
• nightsticks
• bludgeons
• bastinadoes
• staffs
• bastinades
• clubs