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past tense of lick
Synonyms & Antonyms of licked
1
to strike repeatedly
- your father will lick you good if he hears you using swear words
Synonyms for licked
- bashed,
- basted,
- batted,
- battered,
- beat,
- belabored,
- belted,
- birched,
- bludgeoned,
- buffeted,
- bunged up,
- clubbed,
- curried,
- did,
- drubbed,
- fibbed
- [British],
- flogged,
- hammered,
- hided,
- laced,
- lambasted,
- lashed,
- lathered,
- mauled,
- messed (up),
- paddled,
- pelted,
- pommeled
- (or pommelled),
- pounded,
- pummeled
- (also pummelled),
- punched out,
- roughed (up),
- slated,
- slogged,
- switched,
- tanned,
- thrashed,
- threshed,
- thumped,
- tromped,
- walloped,
- whaled,
- whipped,
- whopped
- (or whapped),
- whupped,
- worked over
Words Related to licked
- assailed,
- assaulted,
- attacked,
- beset,
- boxed,
- busted
- (also bust),
- chopped,
- clobbered,
- clouted,
- cracked,
- cudgeled
- (or cudgelled),
- cuffed,
- descended (on or upon),
- hit,
- jumped (on),
- knocked,
- laid on,
- lammed,
- pasted,
- pounced (on or upon),
- punched,
- raided,
- rushed,
- slammed,
- slapped,
- smacked,
- smashed,
- socked,
- spanked,
- stormed,
- swatted,
- swiped,
- thwacked,
- whacked,
- whammed,
- whomped
Phrases Synonymous with licked
2
to achieve a victory over
- he's determined to do everything he can to lick the cancer
Synonyms for licked
- beat,
- bested,
- conquered,
- defeated,
- did down
- [British],
- dispatched,
- got,
- got around,
- mastered,
- overbore,
- overcame,
- overmatched,
- prevailed (over),
- skunked,
- stopped,
- subdued,
- surmounted,
- took,
- trimmed,
- triumphed (over),
- upended,
- won (against),
- worsted
Words Related to licked
- edged (out),
- nosed out,
- pipped
- [British]
- annihilated,
- blew away,
- blew out,
- bombed,
- broke,
- buried,
- clobbered,
- creamed,
- crushed,
- drubbed,
- finished,
- flattened,
- overwhelmed,
- routed,
- shellacked,
- skinned,
- slaughtered,
- smoked
- [slang],
- snowed under,
- thrashed,
- trounced,
- upset,
- walloped,
- waxed
- [slang],
- whipped
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