| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. 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. Idioms: rain blows on. See ATTACK, STRIKE. 2. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. Informal : massacre, wallop. Slang : clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See WIN. 3. To 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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