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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun licking has 2 senses

• licking(n = noun.event) defeat - an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"
is a kind of conclusion, ending, finish, failure
has particulars: heartbreaker, lurch, rout, shutout, skunk, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping, waterloo, whitewash

• licking(n = noun.act) beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows; Array
is a kind of corporal punishment
has particulars: flagellation, flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping, flagellation

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THESAURUS

licking

Waterloo, appetite, beating, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, collapse, conquering, conquest, consumption, crash, cropping, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, deglutition, destruction, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, downfall, dressing-down, drubbing, eating, epulation, failure, fall, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hiding, hunger, ingestion, lambasting, larruping, lathering, leathering, manducation, mastery, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, paddling, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, quietus, regalement, relishing, rout, ruin, rumination, savoring, shellacking, smash, subdual, subduing, subjugation, tanning, tasting, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, vegetarianism, walloping, whaling, whipping, wolfing

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