Synonyms of lashes

lashes 1 of 3

noun

plural of lash

1

as in punches

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument

a sailor punished for disobedience with lashes from the captain's whip

Synonyms & Similar Words

• punches
• blows
• swipes
• slaps
• strokes
• thumps
• thuds
• hits
• spanks
• pounds
• bangs
• whacks
• licks
• knocks
• pokes
• smacks
• clips
• hooks
• pelts
• slams
• beats
• claps
• swats
• cuffs
• welts
• bats
• chops
• socks
• hands
• stripes
• whaps
• switches
• plumps
• fillips
• thwacks
• stingers
• belts
• buffets
• knees
• raps
• whams
• kicks
• biffs
• dabs
• clouts
• lickings
• hacks
• haymakers
• slugs
• boxes
• cracks
• bops
• picks
• bashes
• smashes
• busts
• whops
• beatings
• wallops
• swings
• larrups
• douses
• shivers
• counter-blows
• counter-strokes
• counterblows
• body blows
• whips
• counterstrokes
• lefts
• rabbit punches
• counterpunches
• whippings
• counters
• uppercuts
• sucker punches
• rights
• roundhouses
• batterings
• thrashings
• knockdowns
• sidewinders
• right-handers
• KOs
• pastings
• bastinadoes
• crunchers
• knockouts
• drubbings
• kayos
• wallopings
• one-twos
• bastinades

2

as in whips

a long thin or flexible tool for striking

the rider repeatedly struck the horse with the lash to force it to go faster

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whips
• straps
• floggers
• canes
• batons
• staves
• switches
• bats
• scourges
• birches
• crops
• quirts
• rattans
• knouts
• bullwhips
• hickories
• blacksnakes
• rawhides
• cowhides
• flails
• bludgeons
• billy clubs
• billies
• cat-o'-nine-tails
• nightsticks
• cudgels
• staffs
• bastinadoes
• clubs
• bastinades

lashes

2 of 3

verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of lash

1

as in hides

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible

the cat's tail nervously lashed the table leg

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whips
• hides
• slashes
• flicks
• slaps
• bangs
• spanks
• switches
• scourges
• licks
• leathers
• hits
• cuts
• flagellates
• tans
• punches
• flogs
• flails
• bats
• thrashes
• whales
• horsewhips
• pounds
• clips
• knocks
• straps
• swipes
• birches
• mauls
• whacks
• smacks
• cowhides
• claps
• rawhides
• swats
• canes
• boxes
• beats
• thumps
• pelts
• quirts
• socks
• clubs
• cuffs
• knouts
• touches up
• thwacks
• smites
• batters
• cracks
• lams
• paddles
• clouts
• cudgels
• hammers
• pastes
• works over
• laces
• bashes
• slates
• slugs
• roughs
• belts
• buffets
• lathers
• bludgeons
• busts
• pummels
• wallops
• bops
• threshes
• whaps
• fustigates
• fibs
• lambasts
• clobbers
• blackjacks
• belabors
• bastes
• pistol-whips
• lambastes
• mangles
• slogs
• pommels
• drubs
• whops
• bungs
• tromps
• whups

2

as in licks

to strike repeatedly

all night long sheets of rain lashed the windows

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licks
• pounds
• whips
• pelts
• hides
• batters
• slaps
• spanks
• bats
• punches
• beats
• hits
• thumps
• attacks
• assaults
• knocks
• smashes
• slams
• does
• chops
• mauls
• raids
• whaps
• laces
• paddles
• hammers
• works over
• tans
• storms
• flogs
• clubs
• boxes
• curries
• swipes
• bashes
• slates
• punches out
• switches
• whacks
• buffets
• bludgeons
• wounds
• lathers
• thrashes
• belts
• pummels
• whales
• threshes
• fibs
• smacks
• wallops
• lambasts
• belabors
• bastes
• birches
• swats
• roughs (up)
• drubs
• lambastes
• messes (up)
• slogs
• straps
• cracks
• beats up on
• thwacks
• cuffs
• pommels
• socks
• descends (on or upon)
• bungs up
• rushes
• jumps (on)
• lams
• whops
• tromps
• pastes
• whups
• clouts
• canes
• lays on
• whams
• scourges
• leathers
• lacerates
• flagellates
• busts
• cudgels
• horsewhips
• pounces (on or upon)
• assails
• clobbers
• besets
• gores
• mutilates
• whomps
• maims
• fustigates
• pistol-whips
• blackjacks
• cowhides
• rawhides
• mangles

lashes

3 of 3

verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of lash

as in ties

to prevent (someone or something) from moving freely by or as if by means of a line or cord

The raft was made from several logs lashed together with a rope.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ties
• straps
• knots
• wires
• tethers
• trusses
• coils
• cords
• binds
• leashes
• bands
• ropes
• threads
• snarls
• cinches
• tangles
• winds
• girts
• laces
• twists
• girds
• intertwines
• interlaces
• entangles
• interweaves

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unleashes
• unties
• unbinds
• unfastens
• undoes
• unlooses
• unlaces
• unstraps
• unloosens
• untwists
• unravels
• untethers
• unstrings
• disentangles
• uncoils
• unwinds
• unlashes
• untangles
• unthreads
• unsnarls
• untwines
• unspools