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1. A punishment dealt with blows or lashes: beating, flogging, hiding, lashing, thrashing, whipping. Informal trimming. See attack/defend, reward/punish/deserve.
2. The act of defeating or the condition of being defeated: beating, defeat, drubbing, overthrow, rout, thrashing, vanquishment. Informal massacre, trimming, whipping. Slang dusting. See win/lose/recovery.

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Definition: defeat
Antonyms: victory, win

Stroking with the tongue. There are three kinds of licking in animals: (1) licking of inanimate objects including soil and trees, i.e. pica, which is usually interpreted as an expression of malnutrition; (2) grooming licking of self; (3) abrasive licking of self, often at the same spot. Examples are the ‘mad itch’ of bovine pseudorabies and the production of acral lick dermatitis in dogs.

• l. disease — see licking sickness (below).
• psychogenic l. — see psychogenic dermatosis.
• l. sickness — pica in cattle on a herd or area scale. Usually ascribed to nutritional deficiency of copper, but may also reflect inadequate salt intake.
• l. syndrome — usually refers to sodium chloride nutritional deficiency. See also licking sickness (above).

See words rhyming with "licking."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - slikken, klø, tæv

Nederlands (Dutch)
een pak rammel, nederlaag

Français (French)
n. - raclée

Deutsch (German)
n. - Abreibung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γλείψιμο, ήττα, κατατρόπωση, συντριβή

Italiano (Italian)
bastonatura

Português (Portuguese)
n. - surra (f), lambida (f)

Русский (Russian)
облизывание, придание формы, порка

Español (Spanish)
n. - lamido, paliza

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - slickande, (fam.) stryk, smörj

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
舔, 鞭打, 一舔

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 舔, 鞭打, 一舔

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 후려치기 , 때려눕히기, 패배, 핥기

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - なめること, なぐること, 負かすこと

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لعق, لحس, جلد عنيف, هزيمه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הצלפה, תבוסה‬

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