The act of overcoming or outdoing.

synonym: whipping.

Roget 276: impulse, impulsion, impetus; momentum; push, pulsion^†, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost [U.S.], throw; explosion etc. (violence) 173; propulsion etc. 284.    percussion, concussion, collision, occursion^†, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole^†, appulse^†, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge etc. (attack) 716; beating etc. (punishment) 972.    blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff etc. 972; squash, dowse, swap, whap^†, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce^†, calcitration^†; ruade^†; arietation^†; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk^†; carom, carrom^†, clip [Slang], jab, plug [Slang], sidewinder [U.S.], sidewipe^†, sideswipe [U.S.].    hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer^†; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel etc. (weapon) 727; ax etc. (sharp) 253.    [Science of mechanical forces] dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector.    ... show more

Roget 972: punishment, punition^†; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation.    discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty etc. 974; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital etc. (reward) 973; penology; retributive justice.    lash, scaffold etc. (instrument of punishment) 975; imprisonment etc. (restraint) 751; transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys etc. 975; beating etc. v.; flagellation, fustigation^†, gantlet, strappado^†, estrapade^†, bastinado, argumentum baculinum [Lat.], stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow etc. (impulse) 276; stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade^†.    capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging etc. v.; electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines^†; decapitation, decollation^†; garrotte, garrotto [It]; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe [Fr.]; noyade^†; happy dispatch.    [suicide as punishment] hara-kiri, seppuku [Jap.]; drinking the hemlock.    ... show more

The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.

synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking.

Roget 732: failure; nonsuccess^†, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness^†; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen etc. 158 [Lat.]; labor in vain etc. (inutility) 645; no go; inefficacy^†; inefficaciousness etc. adj.; vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello]; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip etc. (disappointment) 509.    blunder etc. (mistake) 495; fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication^†, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas [Fr.], titubation^†, b_evue [Fr.], faute [Fr.], lurch; botchery etc. (want of skill) 699^†; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].    mishap etc. (misfortune) 735; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.    repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit^†, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.    fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck etc. (destruction) 162; deathblow; bankruptcy etc. (nonpayment) 808.    losing game, affaire flamb_ee.    victim; bankrupt; flunker^†, flunky [U.S.].    ... show more

Polish: lanie, okładanie, młócenie, bicie, pranie, dawanie