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BANGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of subjecting to strong attack
Synonyms:
banging; battering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("banging" is a kind of...):
combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A continuing very loud noise
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("banging" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used informally) very large
Example:
a thumping loss
Synonyms:
banging; humongous; thumping; walloping; whopping
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bang
