Synonyms of licked

licked

verb

past tense of lick

1

as in pounded

to strike repeatedly

your father will lick you good if he hears you using swear words

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounded
• whipped
• lashed
• slapped
• knocked
• thumped
• spanked
• pelted
• attacked
• battered
• hit
• punched
• batted
• smashed
• beat
• mauled
• slammed
• did
• assaulted
• hided
• smacked
• chopped
• pummeled
• lathered
• bashed
• thrashed
• hammered
• paddled
• buffeted
• swiped
• bludgeoned
• tanned
• punched out
• clubbed
• flogged
• curried
• whacked
• laced
• worked over
• basted
• whupped
• switched
• walloped
• boxed
• raided
• tromped
• threshed
• slated
• wounded
• slogged
• fibbed
• lambasted
• cracked
• belted
• roughed (up)
• belabored
• whopped
• whaled
• swatted
• messed (up)
• birched
• stormed
• drubbed
• bunged up
• pommeled
• rushed
• pasted
• beat up on
• socked
• descended (on or upon)
• strapped
• laid on
• assailed
• clobbered
• cuffed
• jumped (on)
• busted
• thwacked
• scourged
• caned
• clouted
• pounced (on or upon)
• beset
• whammed
• lammed
• lacerated
• flagellated
• horsewhipped
• whomped
• mutilated
• gored
• leathered
• mangled
• cudgeled
• maimed
• blackjacked
• pistol-whipped
• fustigated
• cowhided
• rawhided

2

as in defeated

to achieve a victory over

he's determined to do everything he can to lick the cancer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• defeated
• overcame
• mastered
• took
• got
• beat
• conquered
• stopped
• dispatched
• surmounted
• trimmed
• subdued
• succeeded
• bested
• won (against)
• overmatched
• upended
• triumphed (over)
• got the better of
• got around
• prevailed (over)
• finished
• swept
• buried
• worsted
• crushed
• whipped
• skunked
• overwhelmed
• did down
• slaughtered
• flattened
• creamed
• scored
• surpassed
• knocked for a loop
• thrashed
• annihilated
• overbore
• blew out
• skinned
• exceeded
• bombed
• topped
• smoked
• clobbered
• capped
• waxed
• excelled
• upset
• shellacked
• trounced
• flourished
• vanquished
• broke
• routed
• walloped
• pipped
• blew away
• edged (out)
• subjugated
• snowed under
• transcended
• knocked over
• overthrew
• overpowered
• eclipsed
• outdid
• drubbed
• outstripped
• unseated
• knocked off
• nosed out
• outshone
• outdistanced
• overtopped
• bettered
• aced (out)
• outfought

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lost (to)
• fell
• went down
• gave up
• folded
• failed
• collapsed
• washed out
• went under
• flopped
• flunked

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of licked

Gilgeous-Alexander licked his chops at what Game 1 presented. —Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 6 May 2026

When a boy had licked her neck at a party during the first week of college, a stranger! —Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026

There was one girl who licked doorknobs. —Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026

Rumor has it the fashion crowd licked the shelves clean in Paris as soon as the first designs hit stores. —Christina Holevas, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2026

Of course, the flue was closed, so the fire licked up the walls, left a smell like the fall, like ancient smokehouses and dung. —Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026

At Nadeau’s Ice Sculptures, the oldest carving factory in America, a team of former archaeologists and butchers creates ephemeral art designed to be licked, touched, and eventually, lost. —Blair Braverman, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026

Legend has it that when Buddha was painting the sky, blue pigment dripped onto the floor and his inquisitive chow chow licked the puddle, coloring the dog’s tongue permanently. —Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026

Though his injuries were severe, the sailors watched in wonder as the cat determinedly licked his wounds, then got back to work destroying the rats threatening the ship’s food stores. —Anne Ewbank, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026