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Synonyms for whack
ʰwæk, wækwhack
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Princeton's WordNet
whacknoun
the sound made by a sharp swift blow
knock, belt, rap, whack, whangverb
the act of hitting vigorously
"he gave the table a whack"
Synonyms:
bang, strike, swath, roast, rap, tap, belt, knock, belted ammunition, pat, belt ammunition, blame, whang, rap music, knocking, bash, hip-hop, smashwhack, wham, whop, wallopverb
hit hard
"The teacher whacked the boy"
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List of paraphrases for "whack":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3096 | kill | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4051 | bang | |
#4121 | belt | |
#4535 | pat | |
#5857 | rap | |
#6828 | tap | |
#7199 | blame | |
#9810 | knock | |
#10441 | bash | |
#12043 | sock | |
#13309 | roast | |
#13346 | smash | |
#19152 | bop | |
#19810 | knocking | |
#31695 | whack | |
#31980 | wham | |
#42591 | swath | |
#66222 | bonk | |
#67576 | wallop | |
#146144 | whang | |
#203937 | whap | |
#248371 | whop |
How to use whack in a sentence?
It doesn't work as well as I would expect, while the whack-a-mole game has gotten a little bit better, it still exists every single day.
I think [Sanders] saw and we all saw the downside of the Soviet system, yes, they may have had low-cost apartments, but things were very out of whack — there were food shortages, no political freedom.
We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan, those variants are also present in other states. So our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out.
We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan -- those variants are also present in other states, so our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out.
I don't think you could ever presume it's behind you, but now we're in a position to understand what's happened, it's like playing Whack-A-Mole. They just pop up somewhere else.
Translations for whack
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- قتَلArabic
- schlagen, SchlagGerman
- golpear, porrazoSpanish
- iskeä, mäjäyttää, isku, mäjäys, tappaa, täräyttää, täräytysFinnish
- fesser, coup, clac, claquer, frapperFrench
- colpire, colpoItalian
- ואקHebrew
- 強打するJapanese
- ವ್ಯಾಕ್Kannada
- klop, slaan, afmakenDutch
- drefse, kverke, knerte, ekspedereNorwegian
- ударять, удар, разделять, делитьRussian
- slåSwedish
- عجیبUrdu
- 重打Chinese
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