All cudgeled synonyms

verb cudgeled

• strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• knock out — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• pop — point of presence
• nail — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
• blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
• kick — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
• scold — to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
• berate — If you berate someone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong.
• upbraid — to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice.
• assail — If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly.
• dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
• knock — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• pummel — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
• trounce — to beat severely; thrash.
• punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
• crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
• rap — to carry off; transport.
• thump — a blow with something thick and heavy, producing a dull sound; a heavy knock.
• thrash — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
• batter — If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
• whip — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
• clobber — You can refer to someone's possessions, especially their clothes, as their clobber.
• whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
• bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
• smash — to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
• plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
• hurtle — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
• fling — to throw, cast, or hurl with force or violence: to fling a stone.
• shatter — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
• lunge — a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
• slam — the winning or bidding of all the tricks or all the tricks but one in a deal. Compare grand slam (def 1), little slam.
• hurl — to throw or fling with great force or vigor.
• throw — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
• splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
• cast — The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• splash — to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• crash — A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
• ding — to cause surface damage to; dent: Flying gravel had dinged the car's fenders.
• tap — Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol
• lace — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
• clip — A clip is a small device, usually made of metal or plastic, that is specially shaped for holding things together.
• bump — If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
• blitz — If a city or building is blitzed during a war, it is attacked by bombs dropped by enemy aircraft.