All flailed synonyms
flail
F f verb flailed
- waved — having a form, outline, or appearance resembling waves; undulating.
- thrashed — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- swung — simple past tense and past participle of swing1 .
- beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- struck — simple past tense and a past participle of strike.
- bashed — to strike with a crushing or smashing blow.
- smashed — of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.
- battered — Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot.
- clubbed — having a thickened end, like a club
- flogged — to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
- hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- knocked — 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.
- lashed — having lashes or eyelashes, especially of a specified kind or description (usually used in combination): long-lashed blue eyes.
- pummeled — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- slugged — a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat.
- socked — to strike or hit hard.
- whaled — any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.