Thesaurus results for WELTS

welts

noun

plural of welt

as in punches

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument I'll hand ye a few welts with me stick and then we'll see how ye feel!

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Recent Examples of welts As a result, many brogue styles today still retain features like water-resistant storm welts, calling back to the style’s role as a foul-weather shoe in a time before rubber. —

Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 4 May 2026 This was an early morning brawl that left hair scattered across the floor and welts upon at least one of the heads, although there were likely more. —

Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026 Temperature swings, from a hot shower or very cold air, may intensify or cause the formation of new welts. —

Zia Sherrell, Health, 7 Mar. 2026 Tonges exited with an orthopedic walking boot on his right foot while Purdy, dressing at his locker, had a white bandage wrapped around his left knee and red welts on his back. —

Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2026 An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later. —

Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2026 After landing at their final destination the next day, the lawsuit claims that the four were left with welts, lesions, and rashes. —

Dan Raby, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025 There were also large, red welts on the children's necks, torsos, legs, and arms. —

Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 24 Dec. 2025 McClure would briefly lose custody of her children later that year after they were taken to a hospital with several marks, welts and bruises, the lawsuit alleges. —

Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 11 Nov. 2025

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Noun

The officer who was injured was the victim of punches by a fan who entered and then refused to leave a restricted area.

— Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
The exhibit pulls few punches, referring bluntly to pushback against racial progress, widening gaps between rich and poor and drivers of the conservative movement from presidents Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026