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Synonyms & Antonyms of licking
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failure to win a contest
- our team took a licking last night, but we'll get them next time
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licking
verbpresent participle of lick
Synonyms & Antonyms of licking (Entry 2 of 2)
1
to strike repeatedly
- your father will lick you good if he hears you using swear words
Synonyms for licking
- bashing,
- basting,
- battering,
- batting,
- beating,
- belaboring,
- belting,
- birching,
- bludgeoning,
- buffeting,
- bunging up,
- clubbing,
- currying,
- doing,
- drubbing,
- fibbing
- [British],
- flogging,
- hammering,
- hiding,
- lacing,
- lambasting,
- lashing,
- lathering,
- mauling,
- messing (up),
- paddling,
- pelting,
- pommeling
- (or pommelling),
- pounding,
- pummeling
- (also pummelling),
- punching out,
- roughing (up),
- slating,
- slogging,
- switching,
- tanning,
- thrashing,
- threshing,
- thumping,
- tromping,
- walloping,
- whaling,
- whipping,
- whopping
- (or whapping),
- whupping,
- working over
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- assailing,
- assaulting,
- attacking,
- besetting,
- boxing,
- busting,
- chopping,
- clobbering,
- clouting,
- cracking,
- cudgeling
- (or cudgelling),
- cuffing,
- descending (on or upon),
- hitting,
- jumping (on),
- knocking,
- lamming,
- laying on,
- pasting,
- pouncing (on or upon),
- punching,
- raiding,
- rushing,
- slamming,
- slapping,
- smacking,
- smashing,
- socking,
- spanking,
- storming,
- swatting,
- swiping,
- thwacking,
- whacking,
- whamming,
- whomping
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2
to achieve a victory over
- he's determined to do everything he can to lick the cancer
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- edging (out),
- nosing out,
- pipping
- [British]
- annihilating,
- blowing away,
- blowing out,
- bombing,
- breaking,
- burying,
- clobbering,
- creaming,
- crushing,
- drubbing,
- finishing,
- flattening,
- overwhelming,
- routing,
- shellacking,
- skinning,
- slaughtering,
- smoking
- [slang],
- snowing under,
- thrashing,
- trouncing,
- upsetting,
- walloping,
- waxing
- [slang],
- whipping
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The first known use of licking was in 1756
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