Synonyms of tanning

tanning

verb

present participle of tan

1

as in hiding

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible

Grandpa told us that when he was a kid, if he misbehaved at all, his father would tan his backside with a belt

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hiding
• whipping
• slashing
• switching
• flicking
• cutting
• leathering
• lashing
• spanking
• flogging
• scourging
• hitting
• flagellating
• whaling
• slapping
• flailing
• licking
• thrashing
• knocking
• punching
• banging
• strapping
• smacking
• batting
• clipping
• cowhiding
• birching
• mauling
• horsewhipping
• rawhiding
• pounding
• whacking
• swiping
• boxing
• caning
• clubbing
• beating
• clapping
• swatting
• thumping
• cracking
• paddling
• cudgelling
• lathering
• knouting
• cudgeling
• pelting
• quirting
• bashing
• battering
• socking
• smiting
• touching up
• basting
• roughing
• pasting
• blackjacking
• slating
• hammering
• slugging
• bopping
• thwacking
• pummeling
• cuffing
• mangling
• pummelling
• fibbing
• belting
• clouting
• busting
• pistol-whipping
• lacing
• clobbering
• working over
• bludgeoning
• threshing
• fustigating
• buffeting
• lamming
• drubbing
• slogging
• whopping
• walloping
• pommelling
• pommeling
• lambasting
• whapping
• belaboring
• bunging
• tromping
• whupping

2

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

a time when children were routinely tanned for misbehavior

Synonyms & Similar Words

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