Synonyms for punch
pʌntʃpunch

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1. punch

   Synonyms:
   perforate, poke, pierce, puncture, terebrate, bore

   Antonyms:
   stop, plug, seal, bung

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1. punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slugnoun

   (boxing) a blow with the fist

   "I gave him a clout on his nose"

   Synonyms:
   jabbing, type slug, pigeon berry, clout, jab, garget, carrier bag, sack, thrust, bullet, salt lick, slug, dawdler, lick, poke, pull, paper bag, lagger, biff, clout nail, thrusting, sluggard, puncher, drone, trailer, lap, laggard, scoke, poking

2. punchnoun

   an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl

   Synonyms:
   slug, lick, biff, poke, puncher, clout

3. punch, puncherverb

   a tool for making holes or indentations

   Synonyms:
   cowpuncher, poke, cattleman, slug, cowhand, biff, puncher, cowboy, lick, cowherd, cowpoke, cowman, clout

4. punch, plugverb

   deliver a quick blow to

   "he punched me in the stomach"

   Synonyms:
   plug, secure, perforate, plug away, stop up

5. punchverb

   drive forcibly as if by a punch

   "the nail punched through the wall"

   Synonyms:
   plug, perforate

6. punch, perforateverb

   make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation

   "perforate the sheets of paper"

   Synonyms:
   plug, penetrate, perforate

Matched Categories

1. • Mixed Drink
   • Pierce
   • Thrust

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1. punchverb

   Synonyms:
   perforate, bore, pierce

2. punchverb

   Synonyms:
   push, poke

3. punchnoun

   Synonyms:
   borer

4. punchnoun

   Synonyms:
   push, poke

5. punchnoun

   Synonyms:
   horse (short and thick)

6. punchnoun

   Synonyms:
   buffoon (of a puppet-show), clown, harlequin, punchinello, merry-andrew, zany, scaramouch, fool, antic, pickle-herring, jack-pudding

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1. punchverb

   Synonyms:
   push, poke, pierce, bore, perforate, puncture

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1. List of paraphrases for "punch":

   awl, poonch, fist, roughhouse, bonsh, drift, hit, knock, punching, joker

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1. punch

   Synonyms:
   See Murphy's kidney punch
   

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1. Detectives James Essig:

   Our victim here is lying on the ground in the basketball court on his clothes, he states he felt a punch in his side.

2. Outgoing Democratic Virginia Gov.Terry McAuliffe:

   Listen, if this guy got in my space, you wan na get in my space, I’ve always said Chris, you punch me, I ’m going to punch back twice as hard. And it would n’t be hard to do it, but you know, this guy thinks he could intimidate everybody.It’s disgraceful. It’s embarrassing.

3. Antjuan Seawright:

   You don't punch down.

4. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio:

   I don't want us to have a president that we constantly have to be explaining to our kids, 'Look, I know that's what the president did, but you shouldn't do that.' I don't want that, donald Trump -- he might have grown up the way he did, with a lot of money and going to boarding school. I can tell you this: Where I grew up, if someone keeps punching people in the face, eventually someone's going to have to stand up and punch them back.

5. Igbo Proverb:

   The world is like a goat's udder. It does not yield any milk, unless you punch and squeeze at it