whang

[hwang, wang] / ʰwæŋ, wæŋ /

VERB

hit

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bat batter beat belt blast kick knock knock out nail pop punch slap smack whack

STRONG

KO bang bash blitz box brain buffet bump clap clip clobber clout club crack cudgel cuff dab ding flail flax flog hammer hook jab lace lambaste larrup lather lob pellet pelt percuss pound rap sock stone swat tap thrash thump thwack trash uppercut wallop

WEAK

give a black eye knock around let fly let have it ride roughshod

Example Sentences

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Around here the people seem content to settle for whatever scars life whangs them with as a decoration.

From Literature

Or an emptiness so sudden it leaves the girders whanging in the absence of wind, the sky milk-blue and astringent?

From Economist

They turned down Cannery Row and whanged a stone at the corrugated iron front of Morden’s Cannery.

From Literature

The sharp, pointed fragment hit a hollow tooth and whanged into the nerve.

From Literature

I will eat it the second day, but never, ever the third, and certainly not if it has anything resembling a whang.

From Time