shellacking (root: shellac)

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Noun

HYPHEN

shel=lack=ing

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THESAURUS

shellacking

beating, calcimining, clobbering, coating, covering, crushing defeat, debacle, decisive defeat, defeasance, drubbing, enameling, fresco, gilding, glazing, glossing, japanning, licking, no contest, overthrow, overwhelming defeat, painting, pasting, priming, rout, smashing defeat, smearing, staining, stippling, total defeat, trouncing, undercoating, utter defeat, vanquishment, varnishing, whipping, whitewash, whitewashing, whopping

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