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All flailed synonyms

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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.
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