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shellackingnoun failure to win a contestsuffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition beating, defeat, drubbing, licking, loss, lump, overthrow, plastering, rout, trimming, trouncing, whipping collapse, debacle(also débâcle), failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, nonsuccess, setback, upsetlurch, shutout, washout, whitewash success, triumph, victory, win accomplishment, achievementblowout, cakewalk, landslide, romp, runaway, sweep, walkaway, walkover to defeat by a large marginthe local football team was shellacked 35-0 in their final outing for the season annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, skinning, skunking, smoking(slang), smothering, snowing under, thrashing, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing(slang), whipping, whomping, whopping(or whapping), whupping sweeping, upsettingbeating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worstingcrushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcendingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingbreaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering beating the pants off, eating alive, running circles around(or running rings around), wiping the floor with(or wiping the ground with) in 1931 |