bashing
Repeatedly hitting hard
Bashing is aggressive physical or verbal attack.
The literal sense is hitting repeatedly: He took a bashing in the fight.
More often it describes hostile criticism of a group or idea: celebrity bashing, gay bashing, union bashing.
The suffix -bashing attaches freely to targets: immigrant-bashing politicians, corporate-bashing activists.
Repeated striking or pulsing
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- batteringRepeated forceful striking
- pummelingSustained striking attack
- bludgeoningStriking with weight
assault · striking · hammering · hitting · punching · kicking · slugging · mauling
Destroying or criticizing harshly
- slammingClosing with violent force
- roastingCooking with dry heat
- ridiculingMocking with contempt
- deridingExpressing scornful contempt
mocking · disparaging · attacking · denouncing · berating · lambasting · vilifying · skewering
Sudden violent impact
beating
Repeated striking or pulsing
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- batteringRepeated forceful striking
- pummelingSustained striking attack
bludgeoning · assault · striking · hammering · hitting · punching · kicking · slugging · mauling · attack
trashing
Destroying or criticizing harshly
- slammingClosing with violent force
- roastingCooking with dry heat
- ridiculingMocking with contempt
deriding · mocking · disparaging · attacking · denouncing · berating · lambasting · vilifying · skewering · pillorying
crash
Sudden violent impact
thud · thwack · crack · pow · bam · clang · crunch · slam · whack · thump
celebration
Festive event marking occasion
rave · fiesta · revelry · jamboree · get-together · soiree · gala · fete · hoedown · rager
- forceful actionsslam, smash, crash, bang, pound
- RC HobbyRC cars, RC helicopters, RC boats, BNF, RTF
- Beatdownsbeatdown, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, blowout
- beatingsbeating, thrashing, pummeling, pounding, battering
- criticismcriticism, critique, review, feedback, opinion
- destructiondestruction, destroying, demolishing, devastation, ruination
bashingpraising
Voicing admiration
lauding · defending · extolling · celebrating · championing
bashingretreating
Moving back from advance
fleeing · withdrawing · backing off · avoiding · abstaining
- gay bashingAttacking perceived homosexuals
- bashing outCreating something hurriedly
- queer bashingViolence against LGBT people
- trans bashingHarassment of transgender individuals
- mailbox bashingVehicular postal vandalism
- bashing aboutMoving clumsily, hitting things