Synonyms of thrashing

thrashing 1 of 2

noun

as in hammering

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hammering
• pounding
• pummelling
• bashing
• pummeling
• licking
• battering
• bludgeoning
• clobbering
• blow
• thump
• slap
• hit
• buffet
• lambasting
• punch
• knock
• encounter
• meeting
• rap
• contact
• shock
• collision
• jolt
• touch
• impact
• impingement
• concussion
• bump
• kick
• crash
• wallop
• jounce
• jar
• slam
• strike
• smash

thrashing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of thrash

1

as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin

the incumbent has been thrashing his opponents for so long that there's never any real contest for the Senate seat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• burying
• throwing
• bombing
• beating
• overcoming
• clobbering
• trouncing
• drubbing
• smothering
• walloping
• flattening
• annihilating
• upsetting
• pasting
• routing
• trimming
• mastering
• dusting
• creaming
• whupping
• skinning
• taking
• whomping
• shellacking
• whapping
• topping
• waxing
• tromping
• whopping
• blowing away
• sweeping
• smoking
• overwhelming
• scoring
• exceeding
• conquering
• crushing
• succeeding
• destroying
• dispatching
• skunking
• surpassing
• capping
• licking
• running rings around
• eating alive
• running circles around
• snowing under
• beating the pants off
• subduing
• wiping the ground with
• slaughtering
• wiping the floor with
• finishing
• vanquishing
• subjugating
• surmounting
• hurdling
• overthrowing
• upending
• prevailing (over)
• besting
• overpowering
• winning (against)
• overbearing
• outdoing
• transcending
• triumphing (over)
• knocking over
• outstripping
• eclipsing
• bettering
• outdistancing
• outshining
• excelling
• overmatching
• flourishing
• knocking off
• overtopping
• breaking
• sinking
• worsting
• outfighting
• edging (out)
• acing (out)
• pipping
• doing in
• nosing out

2

as in hiding

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible

thrashed the poor horse with a riding crop

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• hiding
• slashing
• lashing
• flailing
• flicking
• slapping
• switching
• hitting
• flogging
• knocking
• cutting
• spanking
• banging
• flagellating
• punching
• licking
• pounding
• mauling
• smacking
• scourging
• tanning
• whaling
• leathering
• whacking
• batting
• horsewhipping
• thumping
• strapping
• clipping
• beating
• birching
• swiping
• clapping
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• swatting
• caning
• boxing
• pummeling
• pummelling
• cudgelling
• battering
• cudgeling
• hammering
• clubbing
• pelting
• bashing
• thwacking
• clobbering
• cracking
• slugging
• smiting
• socking
• bludgeoning
• paddling
• clouting
• bopping
• walloping
• drubbing
• pasting
• quirting
• mangling
• cuffing
• knouting
• touching up
• buffeting
• slogging
• roughing
• belting
• busting
• lathering
• threshing
• lambasting
• pistol-whipping
• whupping
• whopping
• slating
• blackjacking
• working over
• whapping
• basting
• tromping
• lamming
• lacing
• fustigating
• fibbing
• belaboring
• bunging
• pommelling
• pommeling

3

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

the tree branches thrashed the sides of the house as the storm continued to rage

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• licking
• lashing
• whipping
• hiding
• beating
• battering
• thumping
• slapping
• pelting
• knocking
• attacking
• hitting
• smashing
• slamming
• punching
• doing
• mauling
• spanking
• pummelling
• pummeling
• assaulting
• batting
• hammering
• bashing
• chopping
• bludgeoning
• drubbing
• paddling
• smacking
• flogging
• storming
• raiding
• walloping
• clubbing
• buffeting
• whacking
• slogging
• belting
• lathering
• switching
• lambasting
• threshing
• boxing
• currying
• tanning
• whupping
• slating
• whapping
• punching out
• working over
• whopping
• whaling
• tromping
• basting
• lacing
• swiping
• fibbing
• belaboring
• cracking
• roughing (up)
• birching
• wounding
• messing (up)
• rushing
• pommelling
• thwacking
• clobbering
• swatting
• pommeling
• cudgelling
• pasting
• strapping
• clouting
• cudgeling
• socking
• bunging up
• assailing
• beating up on
• cuffing
• descending (on or upon)
• caning
• whomping
• jumping (on)
• busting
• flagellating
• besetting
• whamming
• lacerating
• scourging
• laying on
• pouncing (on or upon)
• lamming
• leathering
• mutilating
• mangling
• pistol-whipping
• goring
• horsewhipping
• maiming
• blackjacking
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• fustigating

4

as in tossing

to make jerky or restless movements

in obvious pain, the wounded soldier thrashed about his cot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tossing
• twitching
• squirming
• jerking
• fidgeting
• twisting
• fiddling
• writhing
• shivering
• trembling
• shaking
• wiggling
• jigging
• wriggling
• jiggling
• threshing
• quivering
• shuddering
• fluttering
• squiggling
• flitting
• quaking
• pacing
• twittering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• resting
• relaxing
• unwinding
• calming (down)
• stilling