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 The city was walloped by a major winter storm at the end of January, which dumped more than 10 inches of snow in Central Park and resulted in the cancellation of thousands of flights. —

Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026 California is being walloped this week by a powerful winter storm bringing treacherous thunderstorms, high winds and heavy snow in mountain areas. —

ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026 Fluffy snow fell in parts of the metro Charlotte on Thursday, adding to icy conditions left by a historic winter storm that walloped all 100 North Carolina counties last week. —

Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2026 With patches of ice still visible in some places in downtown, the demonstrators assembled for a protest that had been originally set for earlier in the week but was hastily postponed because of the winter blast that walloped North Texas. —

Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026 With so much of the country being walloped by winter weather right now, any indication that spring is on the way is a welcome one. —

Marci Robin, Allure, 27 Jan. 2026 Tennessee has also started being walloped by snow and ice, with forecasters predicting up to six inches of snow expected from the storm, more than a season's worth in about one day. —

Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026 If Texas Tech didn’t belong, then BYU, which was walloped twice by the Red Raiders, certainly had no business in the 12-team field. —

Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026 Smith was injured in the third period of last Saturday’s road game against the Pittsburgh Penguins as he was walloped into the boards by defenseman Tyler Wotherspoon. —

Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2025

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Russian missiles and drones in recent months have pounded Ukraine’s energy grid, plunging people into frozen darkness in one of the country’s coldest winters on record.

— Justin Spike, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
Sweat dripped, pulses pounded, and for a fleeting few hours, nothing beyond the walls of (SUB)MERCER seemed to matter, offering a rare escape no one seemed ready to let go of.

— Kelsey Stewart, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026