To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:
assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh. (Informal) lambaste. Idiom: rain blows on. See attack, strikeTo render totally ineffective by decisive defeat:
annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. (Informal) massacre, wallop. (Slang) cream, shellac, smear. See win
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