Synonyms for licking
ˈlɪk ɪŋlick·ing

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1. defeat, lickingnoun

   an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

   "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"

   Synonyms:
   thrashing, trouncing, frustration, whacking, drubbing, defeat, beating, lacing

2. beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whackingnoun

   the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

   Synonyms:
   thrashing, trouncing, walloping, debacle, whacking, drubbing, whipping, beating, defeat, lacing, lace, slaughter

Matched Categories

1. • Corporal Punishment
   • Ending
   • Failure

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1. lickingnoun

   Synonyms:
   lapping

2. lickingnoun

   Synonyms:
   [Low.] whipping, beating, flogging, thrashing, castigation

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1. lickingnoun

   Synonyms:
   flogging, chastisement, castigation, punishment, thrashing, whipping

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1. Malcolm Muggeridge:

   In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

2. Probaerb:

   Stop working hard, start licking the boots of bosses. It is a way of rising through the posts in the private company.

3. Proverb:

   The open secret to fast growing and becoming the functional head in the private company is to do the boot-licking of the boss.

4. Masao Miyazaki:

   When iridoid cocktails were applied on the bottom of dishes that were then covered by a punctured plastic cover, cats still exhibited licking and chewing even though they couldn't contact the chemicals directly, this means that licking and chewing is an instinctive behavior elicited by olfactory stimulation of iridoids.

5. Michele Berdy:

   It's also this sort of 'man's man,' slipping into foul language, and always putting somebody down, making fun of somebody, like the Turks licking the Americans. It's insulting and it's putting down the Turks and the Americans in the process.