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licking
Synonyms and Antonyms of licking
- our team took a licking last night, but we'll get them next time
Synonyms and Antonyms of licking
- your father will lick you good if he hears you using swear words
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
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
blackjacking, caning, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping, leathering, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, strapping
- he's determined to do everything he can to lick the cancer
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
capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding
knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishing
acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending
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