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Verb
Present participle for to hit or strike, especially on the head
crowning
hitting
striking
punching
cuffing
knocking
socking
bashing
clouting
wallopping
walloping
biffing
bopping
welting
slugging
decking
thwacking
banging
smashing
smiting
busting
buffeting
buffetting
flooring
boxing
whaling
dotting
lamming
boffing
quilting
sloshing
donging
swinging
clocking
plugging
dinging
conking
concussing
skulling
stunning
clonking
beaning
coshing
hitting on the head
hitting over the head
sticking one on
thumping
beating
slapping
smacking
battering
clipping
belting
swatting
whacking
hammering
clobbering
pounding
slamming
flogging
thrashing
hooking
pummellingUK
pummeling
drubbing
swiping
caning
sucker-punching
whipping
licking
slogging
bludgeoning
cracking
pelting
pasting
nailing
clubbing
jabbing
popping
bonking
trashing
flailing
lacing
bobbing
rapping
zapping
blasting
uppercutting
whomping
batting
tanning
clapping
belabouringUK
chinning
tagging
belaboringUS
cudgellingUK
whanging
basting
percussing
pelleting
stoning
dabbing
cudgelingUS
blitzing
lambasting
tonking
tapping
lathering
kicking
lobbing
larruping
larrupping
birching
raining blows on
laying into
letting fly
pitching into
lacing to
giving someone a hiding
giving someone a beating
laying one on
knocking out
beating the living daylights out of
zonking
riding roughshod
knocking around
letting someone have it
KO'ing
giving someone a drubbing
giving a black eye
knocking into the middle of next week
giving someone a good drubbing
giving someone a good hiding
giving someone a good beating
whopping
spanking
lashing
thudding
assaulting
skelping
boxing someone's ears
hacking
chopping
blowing
whamming
stroking
filliping
attacking
poking
duking
landing a punch
aiming blows at
whapping
striping
switching
plumping
picking
colliding
impacting
bumping
ramming
crashing
impinging
clumping
thrusting
impelling
roughing up
laying a finger on
doing over
knocking about
“In the Old Testament, two teenagers can't live together without one braining the other.”
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