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Synonyms and Antonyms of thrashing
- the incumbent has been thrashing his opponents for so long that there's never any real contest for the Senate seat
annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking [slang], smothering, snowing under, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing [slang], whipping, whomping, whopping (or whapping), whupping
beating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worsting
crushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishing
acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending
edging (out), nosing out, pipping [British]
capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding
breaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering
- thrashed the poor horse with a riding crop
blackjacking, caning, clubbing, cudgeling (or cudgelling), fustigating
banging, bopping, boxing, busting, clapping, clipping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cuffing, hitting, knocking, lamming, pasting, punching, slapping, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, spanking, swatting, swiping, thwacking, walloping, whacking
bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging, drubbing, fibbing [British], hammering, lacing, lambasting, lathering, licking, mangling, mauling, paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), roughing, slating, slogging, threshing, thumping, tromping, whopping (or whapping), whupping, working over
- the tree branches thrashed the sides of the house as the storm continued to rage
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, licking, mauling, messing (up), paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), punching out, roughing (up), slating, slogging, switching, tanning, 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
- in obvious pain, the wounded soldier thrashed about his cot
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