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. John Heubusch:

   The flames are licking right up the hills, right up to the parking lot, i think the parking lot will save President Reagan library.

2. 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.

3. Jim Acosta:

   While Donald Trump's still licking Donald Trump wounds down in Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump poses a threat to this country, this is not a time to put away our fact checkers in some sort of box on a shelf. They're going to be needed to fact-check this movement. Donald Trump may be going away, but Donald Trump is not.

4. Tim Howard:

   When Alex Ferguson left I think there was a lot of people probably in the media( licking their) chops, excited for and looking for the slaughter that was about to come -- that was impending because unless the next manager came in and was absolutely perfect that was what was going to happen, david Moyes is one hell of a tough character. If anyone can withstand that and brush it off and move on it's David Moyes.

5. 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.