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WALLOPING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sound defeat

Synonyms:

debacle; drubbing; slaughter; thrashing; trouncing; walloping; whipping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("walloping" is a kind of...):

defeat; licking (an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest)

Derivation:

wallop (defeat soundly and utterly)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used informally) very large

Example:

a thumping loss

Synonyms:

banging; humongous; thumping; walloping; whopping

Classified under:

Adjectives

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 wallop

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