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All downthrow synonyms

downΒ·throw
D d

noun downthrow

  • defeat β€” If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
  • blow β€” When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
  • loss β€” detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
  • massacre β€” the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
  • collapse β€” If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
  • drubbing β€” a blow with a stick or the like.
  • rout β€” a bellow.
  • thrashing β€” an act or instance of thrashing; beating; blow.
  • setback β€” Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
  • killing β€” the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
  • failure β€” an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
  • debacle β€” A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
  • breakdown β€” The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
  • beating β€” If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
  • triumph β€” the act, fact, or condition of being victorious or triumphant; victory; conquest.
  • destruction β€” Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
  • repulse β€” to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
  • conquest β€” Conquest is the act of conquering a country or group of people.
  • licking β€” a stroke of the tongue over something.
  • check β€” Check is also a noun.
  • trashing β€” anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
  • whipping β€” an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • trimming β€” the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
  • slaughter β€” Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
  • break β€” 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.
  • discomfiture β€” Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
  • fall β€” to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
  • rebuff β€” a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances.
  • count β€” A Count is a European nobleman with the same rank as an English earl.
  • reverse β€” opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
  • mastery β€” command or grasp, as of a subject: a mastery of Italian.
  • annihilation β€” the act of annihilating
  • ambush β€” If a group of people ambush their enemies, they attack them after hiding and waiting for them.
  • trap β€” a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
  • ruin β€” ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • scalping β€” the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
  • whaling β€” the work or industry of capturing and rendering whales; whale fishing.
  • waxing β€” Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145Β°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
  • lacing β€” a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
  • trouncing β€” to beat severely; thrash.
  • ko β€” a knockout in boxing.
  • subjugation β€” the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • shellacking β€” lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • overthrow β€” to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
  • defeasance β€” the act or process of rendering null and void; annulment
  • unvanquished β€” to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
  • success β€” the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals.
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