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licking
noun as in beating
noun as in defeat
Strongest match
Strong matches
- KO
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- destruction
- discomfiture
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- killing
- lacing
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whaling
- whitewashing
Example Sentences
Roberts isn’t just chewing the scenery; she’s devouring the celluloid and licking her chops, hungry for more.
The Forest talisman scored two goals in his side's last home game against Brentford and will be licking his lips at the prospect of facing West Ham, who shipped five last week.
And now, though still licking my wounds and feeling adrift, I was relishing my newfound freedom.
Some companies sell sunscreen with a bitter taste to stop animals licking it off.
Each morning, Rosa Chamami wakes to flames licking at cardboard scraps in a makeshift stove in her yard.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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