Thesaurus:beating
English
Noun
Sense: the action by which someone or something is physically hit repeatedly
Synonyms
- ass beating (vulgar, slang)
- ass kicking (vulgar, slang)
- battering
- beatdown (slang)
- beating
- boom-boom (figurative, slang)
- clobbering
- drubbing
- dusting
- flogging
- hiding
- going over
- kicking
- lacing
- lamming
- larruping
- leathering
- loundering (Northern England, archaic)
- licking
- pasting
- pummeling
- shellac
- shoeing
- smackdown (slang)
- thrashing
- thumping
- thwacking
- warming
- whaling
- whipping
- whopping
- whupping
- wiping
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Various
- chastisement
- corporal punishment
- flagellation
- toco (obsolete, British, slang)
- whackage
Further reading
- “972. punishment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “beating” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.