I. verb
1.
to strike repeatedly
robbed and beaten by thugs
Synonyms: baste, batter, belabor, buffet, drub, ||dump, hammer, lam, lambaste, paste, pelt, pound, pummel, thrash, tromp, wallop, whop
Related Word: bastinado, baton, bludgeon, cudgel, fustigate, pistol-whip; flog, lace, lash, tan, whip; lay on, maul, muss up, rough (up)
Idioms: give one beans, rain blows on
2.
Synonyms: whip 2, ||clobber, curry, drub, lick, shellac, smear, smother, thrash, trim
3.
Synonyms: scour 2, comb, finecomb, fine-tooth-comb, forage, grub, rake, ransack, rummage, search
4.
Synonyms: whip 3, whisk
5.
Synonyms: wag , lash, switch, waggle, wave, woggle
6.
Synonyms: hammer 1, malleate, pound
7.
Synonyms: surpass 1, best, better, exceed, excel, outdo, outshine, outstrip, top, transcend
Idioms: beat (all) hollow
8.
Synonyms: nonplus 1, buffalo, get, stick, stump
9.
Synonyms: cheat , bilk, chouse, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, flimflam, gyp, overreach
10.
Synonyms: frustrate 1, baffle, balk, bilk, circumvent, dash, disappoint, foil, ruin, thwart
11.
Synonyms: scoop
12.
Synonyms: pulsate , palpitate, pulse, throb
13.
Synonyms: win 1, overcome, prevail, triumph
II. noun
1.
Synonyms: rhythm , cadence, cadency, measure, meter, rhyme, rhythmus, swing
2.
Synonyms: scoop , exclusive