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Meaning of LICKING

Pronunciation:  'liking

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  an unsuccessful ending
 
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 Synonyms: defeat
 
 Antonyms: triumph, victory
 
 See Also: conclusion, debacle, drubbing, ending, finish, rout, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, Waterloo, whipping

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lick"ing\, n.
1. A lapping with the tongue.
2. A flogging or castigation. [Colloq. or Low]
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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, Waterloo, whaling, whipping, wolfing
 

 

 

 

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