Thesaurus results for WALLOPED

walloped

verb

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past tense of wallop

as in pounded

to strike repeatedly walloped the branches of the pear tree with a stick in an effort to knock down some fruit

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as in whipped

to defeat by a large margin walloped their traditional rivals 20 to nothing

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as in smacked

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner arrested for walloping a police officer

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Recent Examples of walloped In the East, the Detroit Pistons dispatched the Cleveland Cavaliers, and in the West, the Oklahoma City Thunder walloped LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers by 18 points. —

Andrew Greif, NBC news, 6 May 2026 The two shots gave the Celtics — who had walloped the 76ers in two of the first four games and won another in the clutch — a 13-point third-quarter lead. —

Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026 During that time, the company has also been walloped by tariffs, geopolitical challenges, and industry overcapacity. —

Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026 O’Neill inexplicably bobbles the snap, tries to pick the ball up instead of diving on it and loses it again when he gets walloped. —

Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026 Illinois residents have been walloped by surging health insurance costs this year. —

Barbara Hoare, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026 Blizzard conditions continued in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes on Monday after the storm walloped parts of Wisconsin and Michigan with several feet of snow. —

Arkansas Online, 17 Mar. 2026 Shortly after the company found new ownership via the Retirement Systems of Alabama, COVID walloped the movie theater business — and iPic’s box office revenues and balance sheets never recovered. —

Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Mar. 2026 Democrats had been walloped by Republicans in the congressional midterms two years earlier. —

Michael Collins, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026

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As time ran out before the break, Clark pounded the ball to the floor in frustration and voiced some sort of grievance to her head coach, Stephanie White.

— Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 9 May 2026
The recent selloff in financial services stocks pounded Amex, too; its shares are down 18% from the all-time high reached in December.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 May 2026