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verb
To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:
assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh. (Informal) lambaste. (Slang) clobber. Idiom: rain blows on. See attack, strikeTo render totally ineffective by decisive defeat:
annihilate, crush, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. (Informal) massacre, wallop. (Slang) clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See winTo criticize harshly and devastatingly:
blister, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify1, scathe, scorch, score, scourge, slap, slash. (Informal) roast. (Slang) slam. Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to. See praise
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