Soothe means to calm or relax. The others all mean physical harm.
smack, punch, beat, hammer, thrash
excoriate, peel, skin, scalp, lash, whip, scathe, scarify, scold, scourge, thrash, beat, blister, deprive, strip, steal, snatch,
A homophone for "red vegetable" would be "beet," and a homophone for "thrash" would be "thresh."
batter, hit, strike, knock, pound, smack, thrash, thump, pulsate, bang, flutter, wag, defeat, outdo, trounce, overcome, crush, overwhelm, surpass Some synonyms for beat are blow, hit, bang, stroke, rhythm, throb, pulsate and bang.
A synonym for the word cadence is beat.
pound, beat, tap, rap, thrash, tattoo, throb, pulsate
The transitive verb of thrash means to separate seeds from husks and straw by beating as in thresh. Thrash can also mean to beat with, or as if, with a stick or whip as in flogging. It can also mean to defeat decisively or severely. Thrash can mean to beat, swing, or strike as if quickly using a flail. Thrash can mean to go over again and again or to hammer out as in use in a forge. The intransitive verb can mean either to thresh, to deal blows or strokes like using a flail or whip, or to move or stir about forcefully.
bash, dash, crush, beat, thrash, smash, destroy, demolish
Synonyms for "beat up" could include pummel, thrash, bash, punch, or wallop.
routed
overcome, defeat
The two words you are looking for are "beet" and "beat." "Beat" means to thrash or strike repeatedly, while "beet" refers to a type of vegetable. Despite their different meanings and spellings, they are pronounced the same way.