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present participle of whup
Synonyms of whupping
1
to defeat by a large margin
- in the summer box office sweepstakes, most of the Hollywood blockbusters got whupped by a small indie movie with no stars
Synonyms for whupping
- annihilating,
- blowing away,
- bombing,
- burying,
- clobbering,
- creaming,
- drubbing,
- dusting,
- flattening,
- pasting,
- routing,
- shellacking,
- skinning,
- skunking,
- smoking
- [slang],
- smothering,
- snowing under,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- tromping,
- trouncing,
- walloping,
- waxing
- [slang],
- whipping,
- whomping,
- whopping
- (or whapping)
Words Related to 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]
Phrases Synonymous with whupping
2
to strike repeatedly
- a boxer whupping a badly outmatched opponent
Synonyms for whupping
- 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,
- thrashing,
- threshing,
- thumping,
- tromping,
- walloping,
- whaling,
- whipping,
- whopping
- (or whapping),
- working over
Words Related to whupping
- 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
Phrases Synonymous with whupping
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