licking

licking is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Lick. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of Lick
2. noun. A lapping with the tongue.
3. noun. A flogging or castigation.
4. noun. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

   Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking

5. noun. an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

   "it was a narrow defeat"

   "the army's only defeat"

   Synonyms: defeat

Synonyms

beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking, defeat

Common word forms

lick, lickings

Words from these letters

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