Synonyms of pasted

pasted

verb

past tense of paste

1

as in whipped

to defeat by a large margin

with the economy having gone south, it was hardly surprising that the incumbent party got pasted in the general election

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipped
• flattened
• buried
• bombed
• trimmed
• routed
• threw
• dusted
• topped
• clobbered
• overcame
• smothered
• shellacked
• upset
• thrashed
• annihilated
• mastered
• trounced
• skinned
• creamed
• smoked
• took
• waxed
• blew away
• walloped
• beat
• overwhelmed
• swept
• snowed under
• tromped
• destroyed
• scored
• whomped
• whopped
• beat the pants off
• drubbed
• surpassed
• conquered
• succeeded
• ate alive
• dispatched
• wiped the floor with
• capped
• whupped
• exceeded
• licked
• crushed
• skunked
• finished
• ran circles around
• surmounted
• prevailed (over)
• won (against)
• subdued
• slaughtered
• bested
• triumphed (over)
• vanquished
• eclipsed
• hurdled
• transcended
• subjugated
• bettered
• overmatched
• outshone
• flourished
• outstripped
• overpowered
• knocked over
• upended
• excelled
• knocked off
• overthrew
• outdid
• worsted
• outdistanced
• overtopped
• aced (out)
• pipped
• broke
• edged (out)
• sank
• nosed out
• outfought
• overbore
• did in

2

as in slapped

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

pasted the soccer ball halfway across the field

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slapped
• punched
• smacked
• knocked
• clipped
• slammed
• hit
• banged
• pounded
• swiped
• clapped
• whacked
• struck
• cracked
• batted
• bashed
• nailed
• shoved
• kicked
• hammered
• boxed
• thumped
• chopped
• licked
• tapped
• zapped
• swatted
• flicked
• poked
• rapped
• pushed
• bobbed
• clobbered
• tagged
• slugged
• jabbed
• clocked
• bopped
• socked
• thwacked
• bludgeoned
• smote
• stabbed
• busted
• bumped
• walloped
• whaled
• belted
• clouted
• biffed
• slogged
• mangled
• stamped
• stroked
• bonked
• peppered
• battered
• mauled
• bunged
• roughed
• pummeled
• lashed
• slashed
• buffeted
• hung one on
• laced
• beat
• pelted
• dumped
• lambasted
• butted
• cuffed
• whipped
• scuffed
• decked
• drubbed
• prodded
• jostled
• creamed
• bunted
• clubbed
• speared
• switched
• felled
• kneed
• pommeled
• floored
• leveled
• thrashed
• flailed
• knocked down
• sapped
• caned
• flogged
• bowled (down or over)
• cudgeled
• sledged
• conked
• sledgehammered
• sucker punched
• beaned
• brained
• rabbit-punched
• skulled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pasted

O'Brien and Bashir were digitally pasted over the original actors in the former, while the latter was explained away by Sisko and Dax's madcap dash to find the elusive explosive tribble. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026

The Wikimedia Foundation is also working on a tool called Paste Check, which can flag text pasted directly from some AI chatbots. — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2026

The mural in question is pasted along the side of the Jolly Colliers Pub building in Bedminster, Bristol. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Thin partitions marked an early attempt to slice the space into smaller rooms, but the original brick walls remained bare, shivering with cobwebs, where someone had pasted a picture of a man, holy hands bracketing a redbrick heart. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

One was pasted down on page 73 and was light red, like Jefferson’s hair. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026

At the Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital in Kathmandu, the lobby walls have been pasted with photos of hundreds of missing people. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026

As New York Times tech journalist Mike Isaac noticed, Zuckerberg apparently copied his Muse announcement from his platform Threads, where his AI agent already had the @muse handle, pasted it onto X, and accidentally tagged the rock band. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 Sep. 2026

Social media users have copied and pasted a map of the geographic distribution of lactose tolerance originally published in the scientific journal Nature into racist chat threads on the online discussion forum 4chan. — Hilary Smith, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026