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present participle of scotch
Synonyms & Antonyms of scotching
as in beating, whipping
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for scotching
- beating,
- besting,
- clobbering,
- conquering,
- crushing,
- defeating,
- drubbing,
- licking,
- mastering,
- overbearing,
- overcoming,
- overmatching,
- prevailing (over),
- routing,
- skunking,
- subduing,
- surmounting,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- triumphing (over),
- trouncing,
- walloping,
- whipping,
- winning (against)
- annihilating,
- creaming,
- decimating,
- demolishing,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- devastating,
- doing in,
- extinguishing,
- nuking,
- pulling down,
- pulverizing,
- razing,
- rubbing out,
- ruining,
- shattering,
- smashing,
- tearing down,
- totaling
- (or totalling),
- vaporizing,
- wasting,
- wracking,
- wrecking
- blasting,
- blowing up,
- breaking,
- crippling,
- damaging,
- defacing,
- deteriorating,
- disfiguring,
- disintegrating,
- dissolving,
- dynamiting,
- harming,
- impairing,
- injuring,
- mangling,
- marring,
- mutilating,
- spoiling,
- vitiating
- blotting out,
- effacing,
- eradicating,
- expunging,
- exterminating,
- extirpating,
- liquidating,
- obliterating,
- removing,
- rooting (out),
- snuffing (out),
- stamping (out),
- wiping out
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“Scotching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scotching. Accessed 29 Jun. 2022.
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