Synonyms of licking

licking 1 of 2

noun

as in beating

failure to win a contest

our team took a licking last night, but we'll get them next time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beating
• defeat
• whipping
• loss
• trimming
• plastering
• trouncing
• setback
• drubbing
• shellacking
• overthrow
• rout
• lump
• failure
• collapse
• upset
• shutout
• nonsuccess
• fiasco
• flop
• fizzle
• lurch
• debacle
• washout
• whitewash
• débâcle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• success
• victory
• win
• triumph
• sweep
• accomplishment
• achievement
• runaway
• landslide
• romp
• blowout
• cakewalk
• walkover
• walkaway

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• success
• victory
• win
• triumph
• sweep
• accomplishment
• achievement
• runaway
• landslide
• romp
• blowout
• cakewalk
• walkover
• walkaway

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licking

2 of 2

verb

present participle of lick

1

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in defeating

to achieve a victory over

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beating
• defeating
• overcoming
• mastering
• getting
• taking
• stopping
• conquering
• dispatching
• subduing
• trimming
• surmounting
• burying
• succeeding
• getting around
• finishing
• upending
• doing down
• besting
• overmatching
• whipping
• overbearing
• slaughtering
• sweeping
• crushing
• thrashing
• creaming
• knocking for a loop
• skunking
• getting the better of
• annihilating
• worsting
• triumphing (over)
• clobbering
• flattening
• smoking
• winning (against)
• prevailing (over)
• scoring
• topping
• skinning
• exceeding
• capping
• surpassing
• pipping
• blowing out
• breaking
• overwhelming
• waxing
• trouncing
• bombing
• subjugating
• vanquishing
• excelling
• blowing away
• walloping
• drubbing
• outdoing
• routing
• shellacking
• transcending
• upsetting
• flourishing
• overpowering
• overthrowing
• excelling
• knocking over
• knocking off
• unseating
• nosing out
• outshining
• eclipsing
• edging (out)
• bettering
• outstripping
• snowing under
• outdistancing
• overtopping
• acing (out)
• outfighting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• falling
• losing (to)
• collapsing
• flopping
• folding
• failing
• washing out
• flunking
• going down
• going under
• giving up

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• falling
• losing (to)
• collapsing
• flopping
• folding
• failing
• washing out
• flunking
• going down
• going under
• giving up

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