Synonyms of lathering

lathering

verb

present participle of lather

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

the farmer lathered the recalcitrant mule

Synonyms & Similar Words

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