| Main Entry: | lick |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch with tongue |
Synonyms: |
brush, calm, caress, fondle, glance, gloss, graze, lap, lap against, move over, osculate, pass over, play, quiet, ripple, rub, soothe, stroke, sweep, taste, tongue, touch, wash |
| Main Entry: | lick |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | play over with fire |
Synonyms: |
blaze, burn, dart, flick, flicker, fluctuate, flutter, ignite, kindle, leap, palpitate, quiver, ripple, run over, shoot, touch, tremble, vacillate, vibrate, waver |
| Main Entry: | lick |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat, sometimes by hitting |
Synonyms: |
beat, best, clobber, conquer, down, excel, flog, hit, hurdle, lambaste, master, outdo, outstrip, overcome, overwhelm, rout, slap, smear, smother, spank, strike, surmount, surpass, thrash, throw, top, trim, trounce, vanquish, wallop, whip |
Antonyms: |
lose |
| Main Entry: | licking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beating |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, bashing, defeat, drubbing, flogging, lashing, thrashing, whipping |
| Main Entry: | licking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat |
Synonyms: |
KO, ambush, annihilation, beating, blow*, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count*, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing*, lacing, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, overthrow, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing |
| Main Entry: | answer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | solve; fulfill |
Synonyms: |
clarify, conform, correlate, correspond, crack*, deal with*, do*, dope, dope out, elucidate, fill, fit*, lick*, measure up, meet, pass, qualify, satisfy, serve, suffice, suit, unzip, work, work through |
| Notes: | an answer is something said, written, or done in return; a reply is an answer that satisfies a detail in a question |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure by striking |
Synonyms: |
bang, bash, bat, batter, belt, box, break, bruise, buffet, cane, castigate, clout, club, collide, crush, cudgel, drub, flagellate, flail, flog, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste*, lash, lick*, maltreat, mash, maul, pelt, pound, pummel, punch, punish, ram, rap, slap, slug, smack, spank, strike, swat, thrash, thresh, thump, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, guard, help, protect |
| Main Entry: | best |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat; gain advantage |
Synonyms: |
KO, beat, beat up, better, blank*, blast*, bulldoze, clobber, conquer, cream*, deck, drub, exceed, excel, flax, floor*, get the better of, knock off, lambaste, let have it, lick*, master, outclass, outdo, outshine, outstrip, overcome, prevail, put away, shoot down, shut down, surpass, take care of, take down, tan*, thrash*, top, total, transcend, trash*, triumph, triumph over, trounce, wallop, waste*, wax, whip*, whomp, whop, wipe out, wipe the floor with, wipe, zap |
Antonyms: |
give up, lose, relent, surrender |
| Main Entry: | blast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lambaste; defeat mentally |
Synonyms: |
attack, beat, castigate, clobber, criticize, drub, flay, lash out at, lick*, rail at, shellac, whip* |
Antonyms: |
boost, compliment, praise, uphold |
| Main Entry: | clobber |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit, beat |
Synonyms: |
belt, blast, drub, lambaste*, lick, shellac, slam, slug, smash, smear, smother, thrash, trim, wallop, whip |