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- verb transitive, idiomatic to
provide (food or drinks) for free - verb transitive, idiomatic To repeatedly say (particular things)
- verb To do something excessively.
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synonyms (140)
Words with the same meaning
- administer
- apply
- apply to
- attack
- baste
- bastinado
- beat
- bedaub
- belabor
- belt
- besmear
- bestow
- birch
- blanket
- block
- buffet
- burden with
- butter
- cane
- canopy
- charge
- cloak
- clothe
- cloud
- club
- coat
- cope
- cover
- cover up
- cowhide
- cowl
- cudgel
- curtain
- cut
- dab
- daub
- demand
- dose
- dose with
- draw first blood
- drub
- eclipse
- enamel
- enforce upon
- enjoin
- exact
- fasten upon
- film
- flagellate
- flail
- flog
- force
- force upon
- freight with
- fustigate
- gild
- give
- give a whipping
- give the stick
- gloss
- have at
- hood
- horsewhip
- impose
- impose on
- impose upon
- inflict on
- inflict upon
- jump
- knout
- lace
- lacquer
- lash
- lay
- lay about one
- lay into
- lay over
- levy
- light into
- make war on
- mantle
- mask
- mete out to
- muffle
- obduce
- obscure
- occult
- overlay
- overspread
- pistol-whip
- pitch into
- place
- pommel
- prescribe for
- prime
- pummel
- put
- put down
- put on
- put upon
- rawhide
- saddle with
- sail into
- scourge
- screen
- scum
- set
- shield
- slap on
- slather
- smear
- smear on
- smite
- spank
- spread on
- spread over
- spread with
- square up
- strap
- stripe
- subject to
- superimpose
- superpose
- swinge
- switch
- tar
- task
- tax
- thrash
- thump
- trounce
- truncheon
- undercoat
- veil
- wallop
- weight down with
- whale
- whip
- whop
- yoke with
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