WALLOPING Synonyms: 402 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈwä-lə-piŋ

Definition of walloping

as in colossal

unusually large he needed help to mount such a walloping horse

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walloping

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noun

as in thrashing

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walloping

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verb

present participle of wallop

as in pounding

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 whipping

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

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as in hitting

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

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Adjective

Early in the first period, minutes before his career ended and his life forever changed, Normand Leveille took a walloping check along the sidewall at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022 Yet even for that song, after an undoubtedly exhausting hour and 40 minutes, Beavis pushed himself to the breaking point, extending the climax with not one, not five, but 13 walloping, finale-worthy slams. — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2022 Los Angeles — Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2022 The result is a gathering of compact objects that pack a walloping collective punch. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022 What makes Coco so emotionally walloping, though—and what qualifies it as a perfect Thanksgiving film—is the film’s quiet reminders of the joys and annoyances of being part of a generations-spanning family. — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2018 If every decision had been for real money, the oldest adults would have walked away with a walloping 39 percent less cash than young adults. — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013

Noun

He was held from the lineup again on Wednesday, and following the Boys in Blue's 14-1 walloping of the Reds, the Dodgers announced Ohtani was headed to the IL. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026 The Current made sure to give their new fans plenty to cheer for in a 5-1 walloping of last-place Racing Louisville. — Pj Green july 30, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026 The last time the Dolphins beat the Lions in South Florida was a 49-21 walloping in the season opener of 2002, which was also Ricky Williams’ Dolphins debut. — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026 The Minnesota Vikings subsequently hosted the Bengals last weekend in Minneapolis and blew the doors off in a 48-10 walloping that has some around the NFL wondering what might become of Cincinnati's season after back-to-back games that included three and five turnovers, respectively. — Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025

Verb

After last year’s WCS loss to the Yankees (a series much closer than the two-game 18-2 walloping by New York this year), Breslow made roster-changing moves. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Their strength was in walloping a structure and making parts of it collapse, thereby weakening the defenses of the castle under siege. — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Sep. 2026 The Giants’ lineup smothered the Cubs’ pitchers, hitting seven home runs and scoring the first 16 runs of the game en route to an 18-3 walloping at Wrigley Field. — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026 The walloping sandwich might lead you to the tiny restaurant that Arthur Grigoryn and his wife, Takouhi Petrosyan, opened in January in Glendale. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026 The comic sold a walloping 150,000 copies. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026 Pregnancy is well-known to be rough on sleep—the constant need to pee, the baby walloping your insides—but things can get worse postpartum, and not just because of the baby’s needs. — Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Mar. 2026 As the West bakes, a major winter storm is walloping the Upper Midwest and the upper Great Lakes regions, with heavy snow expected across Wisconsin and Michigan on Monday. — Denise Chow, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026 Brisket and burnt previously marked $21 for a half pound (or a walloping $42 per pound) had been X’d out. — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for walloping

Adjective

The sensational international rescue of the famously sentient creatures, replete with colossal cargo planes, huge crates and Shedd staffers working in the dead of night to transport and care for the whales, must have looked made for social media.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
From the tiny unit of matter—the atom, invisible to the eye—comes an explosion of colossal proportions.

— Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of colossal

Noun

The teenager, who has excelled for The Union by scoring seven goals and providing 12 assists in MLS this season, was called up to his first national camp this month and made his international debut in the US’ 4-1 thrashing of Peru on Saturday.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
The Chiefs began their season with consecutive conference victories — first a 31-10 thrashing of the Denver Broncos before a 33-30 overtime win over the Indianapolis Colts.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of thrashing

Verb

One man was already pounding another's head into a small hole that prisoners used as a toilet.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Breaking Benjamin As pounding as any heavy metal band, this Pennsylvania group hammers its way to surprisingly melodic choruses.

— Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of pounding

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In whipping rain and wind in New Jersey, the New York Giants held on for a 12-7 win in their first game since quarterback Jaxson Dart suffered a season-ending knee injury.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
Goalkeeper Emi Martinez floated a ball over Ezri Konsa to Rogers, who exchanged passes with Joao Pedro before shifting sharply onto his right foot and whipping a shot just wide of David Raya’s far post.

— Liam Twomey, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of whipping

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The national Democratic effort to defeat Collins kept going; now the party is spending millions on an ad hitting her for a ProPublica story about her links to a corrupt defense contractor.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Last year in Arizona, a motorcyclist was fatally injured after hitting a Waymo and being flung into the road.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of hitting

Adjective

Thorton had the first two-touchdown game of his career and made the huge catch to set up the go-ahead touchdown before the injury.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026
This deprived the treasurers of huge assets that otherwise could have been invested to generate billions of dollars for the pensions — a gap present-day taxpayers must fill.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

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The butt of the Axvant is designed to double as a mallet, mostly for knocking in tent stakes and taking care of other basic, non-precision hammering.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026
Coastal flooding and hammering winds are already underway from North Carolina and Virginia to New Jersey, the start of a dayslong coastal flood and erosion threat that will extend into New England as the storm ramps up.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of hammering

Verb

The team also pointed out that the same circuit is responsible for the expression of normal, context-appropriate grooming and licking.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
In the post, Wouter was pictured wearing a dog cone, which is used to prevent pets from licking, chewing or scratching surgical sites or wounds.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

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