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switchnoun a long thin or flexible tool for strikingstruck the horse's hide with a leather switch, and it took off at a gallop flogger, lash, scourge, whip birch, blacksnake, bullwhip, cat-o'-nine-tails, cowhide, crop, hickory, knout, quirt, rattan, rawhide, strapbastinado(or bastinade), bat, baton, billy, billy club, bludgeon, cane, club, cudgel, flail, nightstick, staff a quick jerky movement from side to side or up and downthat telltale switch of the cat's tail meant there was a mouse under the piano swish, wag, waggle, whisk oscillation, rock, sway, swing, waverflap, flutter, wave, whipflick, jerk, jolt, snap, twitchjiggle, shake, wigglebob, nod a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrumentin frustration, he gave the mule a sharp switch on the rump, but it still wouldn't budge bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, biff, blow, bop, box, buffet, bust, chop, clap, clip, clout, crack, cuff, dab, douse(British), fillip, hack, haymaker, hit, hook, knock, larrup(dialect), lash, lick, pelt, pick, plump, poke, pound, punch, rap, slam, slap, slug, smack, smash, sock, spank, stinger, stripe, stroke, swat, swipe, thud, thump, thwack, wallop, welt, whack, wham, whop(also whap) counter, counterblow, counterpunch, counterstrokebody blow, hand, kick, knee, left, one-two, rabbit punch, right, right-hander, roundhouse, shiver, sidewinder, sucker punch, swing, uppercutcruncher, kayo, knockdown, knockout, KObastinado(or bastinade), battering, beating, bludgeoning, clobbering, cudgeling(or cudgelling), drubbing, hammering, lambasting, licking, pasting, pounding, pummeling(also pummelling), thrashingflogging, walloping, whip, whipping switchverbto give up (something) and take something else in returnswitched the real grapes for fake ones switched the day of his flight from Thursday to Friday change, commute, exchange, shift, substitute, swap, trade interchangedisplace, replace, supersedecede, hand over, surrender, yieldreciprocate to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motionscows lazily switching their tails and chewing their cud swish, wag, waggle oscillate, rock, sway, swing, waverbeat, flail, flap, flop, lash, whipflick, flicker, flutter, wavejerk, joltjig, jiggle, joggle, shake, twitch, wigglebob, jog, nod to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexibleswitched the stagecoach horses to control the direction they took birch, cowhide, flagellate, flail, flog, hide, horsewhip, lash, leather, rawhide, scourge, slash, tan, thrash, whale, whip knout, quirt, strapcutflick, touch upblackjack, cane, club, cudgel, fustigatepistol-whipbang, bop, box, bust, clap, clip, clobber, clout, crack, cuff, hit, knock, lam, paste, punch, slap, slug, smack, smite, sock, spank, swat, swipe, thwack, wallop, whackbash, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belt, bludgeon, buffet, bung, drub, fib(British), hammer, lace, lambaste(or lambast), lather, lick, mangle, maul, paddle, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, rough, slate, slog, thresh, thump, tromp, whop(or whap), whup, work over to change (as an opinion) to the contrarya politician who has switched his position on a number of issues reverse abrogate, annul, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, strike downabout-face, backtrack, countermand, revert maintain, support, uphold to strike repeatedlythe loose rigging switched the mast during the storm bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, bludgeon, buffet, bung up, club, curry, do, drub, fib(British), flog, hammer, hide, lace, lambaste(or lambast), lash, lather, lick, maul, mess (up), paddle, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punch out, rough (up), slate, slog, tan, thrash, thresh, thump, tromp, wallop, whale, whip, whop(or whap), whup, work over assail, assault, attack, beset, box, bust, chop, clobber, clout, crack, cudgel, cuff, descend (on or upon), hit, jump (on), knock, lam, lay on, paste, pounce (on or upon), punch, raid, rush, slam, slap, smack, smash, sock, spank, storm, swat, swipe, thwack, whack, wham, whompblackjack, cane, cowhide, flagellate, fustigate, horsewhip, leather, pistol-whip, rawhide, scourge, strapgore, lacerate, woundmaim, mangle, mutilate beat up on in 1597 |