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, 1908β2001, 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.