n. Function: verb
1 to strike repeatedly FF1C; robbed and beaten by thugs FF1E;
Synonyms: baste, batter, belabor, buffet, drub, ||dump, hammer, lam, lambaste, paste, pelt, pound, pummel, thrash, tromp, wallop, whop
Related Words: 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
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Synonyms: WHIP 2, ||clobber, curry, drub, lick, shellac, smear, smother, thrash, trim
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Synonyms: SCOUR 2, comb, finecomb, fine-tooth-comb, forage, grub, rake, ransack, rummage, search
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Synonyms: WHIP 3, whisk
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Synonyms: WAG , lash, switch, waggle, wave, woggle
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Synonyms: HAMMER 1, malleate, pound
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Synonyms: SURPASS 1, best, better, exceed, excel, outdo, outshine, outstrip, top, transcend
Idioms: beat (all) hollow
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Synonyms: NONPLUS 1, buffalo, get, stick, stump
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Synonyms: CHEAT , bilk, chouse, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, flimflam, gyp, overreach
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Synonyms: FRUSTRATE 1, baffle, balk, bilk, circumvent, dash, disappoint, foil, ruin, thwart
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Synonyms: SCOOP
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Synonyms: PULSATE , palpitate, pulse, throb
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Synonyms: WIN 1, overcome, prevail, triumph