Thesaurus:beating

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

• belting
• caning
• cudgeling
• fustigation
• neveling
• scourging
• strapping    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• assault    [⇒ thesaurus]
• punishment

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.