Synonyms of creaming

creaming

verb

present participle of cream

1

as in destroying

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of

the head-on collision creamed the brand-new car in an instant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destroying
• ruining
• demolishing
• wrecking
• shattering
• smashing
• devastating
• overcoming
• wasting
• pulverizing
• damaging
• eroding
• vaporizing
• annihilating
• extinguishing
• decimating
• totaling
• razing
• crushing
• ravaging
• marring
• nuking
• breaking
• whipping
• removing
• pulling down
• tearing down
• blasting
• licking
• doing in
• crippling
• dismantling
• defeating
• wracking
• killing
• trimming
• subduing
• mastering
• dissolving
• desolating
• spoiling
• beating
• clobbering
• conquering
• rubbing out
• thrashing
• disintegrating
• scouring
• routing
• injuring
• prevailing (over)
• surmounting
• impairing
• mutilating
• deteriorating
• eradicating
• mangling
• walloping
• besting
• trouncing
• harming
• undoing
• winning (against)
• defacing
• wearing (away)
• obliterating
• dynamiting
• disfiguring
• vitiating
• exterminating
• triumphing (over)
• executing
• sacking
• disassembling
• plundering
• gutting
• sweeping (away)
• liquidating
• slaughtering
• trampling
• scotching
• overmatching
• expunging
• vandalizing
• trashing
• assassinating
• murdering
• washing out
• effacing
• drubbing
• blowing up
• pillaging
• looting
• wiping out
• extirpating
• taking down
• zapping
• stamping (out)
• overbearing
• cutting down
• dispatching
• massacring
• despoiling
• skunking
• blotting out
• slaying
• rooting (out)
• felling
• unmaking
• butchering
• taking out
• snuffing (out)
• mowing (down)
• killing off
• unbuilding
• dilapidating
• havocking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• building
• constructing
• raising
• erecting
• creating
• making
• repairing
• producing
• rearing
• fixing
• setting up
• forming
• putting up
• shaping
• inventing
• assembling
• establishing
• manufacturing
• organizing
• patching
• molding
• forging
• protecting
• instituting
• fabricating
• fashioning
• constituting
• framing
• preserving
• doctoring
• saving
• revamping
• reconditioning
• mending
• bringing about
• founding
• conserving
• restoring
• rebuilding
• reconstructing
• remodeling
• fathering
• renovating

2

as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin

the novice player was creamed in her first tennis tournament

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• overcoming
• beating
• burying
• flattening
• throwing
• dusting
• mastering
• trimming
• topping
• bombing
• annihilating
• pasting
• thrashing
• smothering
• upsetting
• routing
• taking
• smoking
• clobbering
• skinning
• waxing
• trouncing
• whopping
• whomping
• tromping
• whupping
• blowing away
• scoring
• walloping
• licking
• exceeding
• succeeding
• destroying
• sweeping
• conquering
• overwhelming
• shellacking
• surpassing
• capping
• crushing
• drubbing
• dispatching
• eating alive
• skunking
• beating the pants off
• subduing
• running circles around
• snowing under
• wiping the floor with
• finishing
• subjugating
• surmounting
• vanquishing
• slaughtering
• prevailing (over)
• besting
• overthrowing
• outdoing
• upending
• outshining
• transcending
• eclipsing
• bettering
• winning (against)
• overpowering
• excelling
• outstripping
• overtopping
• triumphing (over)
• hurdling
• outdistancing
• overmatching
• knocking over
• breaking
• flourishing
• pipping
• sinking
• knocking off
• edging (out)
• overbearing
• worsting
• outfighting
• acing (out)
• doing in
• nosing out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of creaming

Many bakers will appreciate the additional richness and performance of the butter without any challenges or compromise when creaming into sugar. — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2026

That can result in dry pockets of flour in the finished baked good and, in the case of creaming butter and sugar, flat or greasy cakes or cookies. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026

And butter cakes, on the other hand, start with creaming the fat and sugar together. — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 May 2026

Let the butter come to room temperature, and start creaming it in a mixer. — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026

Tips for Making Cherry Cookies Decker’s recipe doesn’t call for softened butter, but allowing the butter to soften before beating it with the sugar (a process known as creaming) will lead to a lighter, fluffier texture. — Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026

During an early-pandemic baking rut, Rucker, who owns Los Angeles’s Fat + Flour bakeries, was inspired to streamline her process, and skip the usual step of creaming butter and sugar together. — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025