| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. Slang. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh. Informal : lambaste. Idioms: rain blows on. See ATTACK, STRIKE. 2. Slang. To 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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