Synonyms of the word

lashing

• n. Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
• n. (in the form "lashings of"): plenty of.
• n. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
• v. present participle of lash.
• v. (Ireland, slang) Raining heavily.

beating

• n. Action of the verb to beat.
• n. A heavy defeat or setback.
• n. The pulsation of the heart.
• v. present participle of beat.

drubbing

• v. present participle of drub.
• n. A severe beating; a bace.
• n. A thorough defeat.

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

flagellation

• n. A beating consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or…
• n. (botany) The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement.

flogging

• n. Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
• v. present participle of flog.

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

lacing

• v. present participle of lace.
• n. That with which something is laced.
• n. The tied laces that form a netlike pattern.
• n. A beating as punishment; a hiding.

licking

• n. An act of licking.
• n. (slang) A severe beating.
• n. (slang) A great loss or defeat.
• v. present participle of lick.

rope

• n. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted…
• n. (countable) An individual length of such material.
• n. A cohesive strand of something.
• n. (dated) A continuous stream.
• n. (baseball) A hard line drive.
• n. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
• n. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf…
• n. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million…
• n. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
• n. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
• n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
• n. (slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
• n. (in the plural) The small intestines.
• v. (transitive) To tie (something) with something.
• v. (transitive) To throw a rope around (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

tanning

• v. present participle of tan.
• v. The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the skins of animals, which do.
• n. The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
• n. (informal) A spanking.

thrashing

• v. present participle of thrash.
• n. action of the verb to thrash.
• n. a beating, especially a severe one.
• n. (slang) A heavy defeat.
• n. (computing) excessive paging within virtual storage.
• n. (dance) slam dancing.
• n. (colloquial) threshing (of cereal crop, etc).

trouncing

• v. present participle of trounce.
• n. A thorough defeat.

violent

• adj. Involving extreme force or motion.
• adj. Involving physical conflict.
• adj. Likely to use physical force.
• adj. Intensely vivid.
• adj. (obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
• n. (obsolete) An assailant.

whacking

• v. present participle of whack.
• adj. (informal) Exceptionally large; whopping.
• n. A beating.

whipping

• n. (countable) The punishment of being whipped.
• n. (countable) A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
• n. (uncountable) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream etc.
• n. (countable) A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
• n. (nautical, whipping) The lashing of the end of a rope. (FM 55-501).
• v. present participle of whip.