banging

The word “banging” has 2 syllables: bang-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈbæŋɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for banging?

In the thesaurus, “banging” has 166 synonyms and 14 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for banging along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for banging

  • agitation
  • barring
  • bashing
  • battering
  • batting
  • beaning
  • beating
  • belting
  • biffing
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bolting
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • bouncing
  • boxing
  • braining
  • brouhaha
  • brushing
  • buffeting
  • bulldozing
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • caroming
  • chaining
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • closing
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • clunking
  • colliding
  • confusion
  • conking
  • contacting
  • cracking
  • crashing
  • creaming
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • decking
  • dither
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • fastening
  • felling
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • fluster
  • flutter
  • fuss
  • glancing
  • grazing
  • hammering
  • hanging one on
  • hitting
  • impacting
  • impinging
  • jabbing
  • jostling
  • kicking
  • kissing
  • kneeing
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • landing
  • lashing
  • latching
  • lather
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • licking
  • locking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • muscling
  • nailing
  • nudging
  • panic
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pother
  • pounding
  • pressing
  • prodding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • pushing
  • rabbit-punching
  • ramming
  • rapping
  • rebounding
  • ricocheting
  • ricochetting
  • roughing
  • sapping
  • scraping
  • scuffing
  • sealing
  • securing
  • shaving
  • shoving
  • shutting
  • skimming
  • skipping
  • skulling
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spearing
  • stabbing
  • stamping
  • state
  • stew
  • stopping
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • sweat
  • sweeping
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • tapping
  • thrashing
  • thudding
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tizzy
  • to-do
  • touching
  • tumult
  • turbulence
  • turmoil
  • twitter
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whipping
  • zapping

Antonyms for banging

Meanings of banging

  • verb
    1. To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
    2. To hit hard.
    3. To engage in sexual intercourse.
    4. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
    5. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
    6. To inject intravenously.
  • noun
    1. The action of the verb to bang.
  • adjective
    1. Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.
    2. Attractive; sexually appealing.
    3. Huge; great in size.

Example Sentences

  • The kids were banging on the drums during the school concert.
  • I heard a loud banging noise coming from the basement.
  • The party was banging, with music and laughter filling the house.
  • She spent the afternoon banging out a new song on her keyboard.
  • The old door was banging against the frame in the wind.

On this page you'll find 180 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to banging, such as: agitation, barring, bashing, battering, batting, beaning, beating.

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  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smiting
  • snagging
  • snaring
  • snatching
  • socking
  • spearing
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  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • swiping
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  • tagging
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  • thwacking
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  • undressing
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  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whipping
  • wresting
  • zapping

tagging

hammering

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  • belaboring
  • belittling
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  • berating
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  • blackjacking
  • blaming
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  • bobbing
  • bonking
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  • boxing
  • braining
  • buffet
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  • bump
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  • busting
  • butting
  • calling down
  • caning
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  • chiding
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  • chopping
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  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • clouting
  • clubbing
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  • concussion
  • condemning
  • conking
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  • crash
  • creaming
  • criticizing
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  • cudgeling
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  • cutting
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  • denouncing
  • disparaging
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  • hewing
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  • keelhauling
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  • laying into
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  • lecturing
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • licking
  • maiming
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • meeting
  • minting
  • mocking
  • modeling
  • modelling
  • molding
  • mutilating
  • nailing
  • paddling
  • panning
  • pasting
  • patting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • pistol-whipping
  • planishing
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • prodding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
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  • pushing
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  • rabbit-punching
  • ragging
  • raiding
  • rap
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  • rebuking
  • reprehending
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  • reproaching
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  • reviling
  • ridiculing
  • roughing
  • rushing
  • sapping
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  • scorning
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  • sculpting
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  • shock
  • shoving
  • skulling
  • slam
  • slamming
  • slap
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • slating
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smash
  • smashing
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spanking
  • spearing
  • stabbing
  • stamping
  • storming
  • strapping
  • strike
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • taking to task
  • tanning
  • tapping
  • thrashing
  • threshing
  • thump
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tongue-lashing
  • touch
  • tromping
  • upbraiding
  • vituperating
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • working
  • working over
  • wounding
  • zapping

maiming

  • assault
  • attack
  • banging
  • barbarity
  • bashing
  • battering
  • battery
  • batting
  • beating
  • belting
  • bludgeoning
  • boxing
  • breaking
  • browbeating
  • bruising
  • brutality
  • buffeting
  • bulldozing
  • bullying
  • bunging up
  • clubbing
  • crippling
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • damage
  • damaging
  • detriment
  • disabling
  • disfiguring
  • dismembering
  • drubbing
  • flogging
  • force
  • foul play
  • frenzy
  • fury
  • goring
  • hammering
  • hamstringing
  • harm
  • harming
  • hectoring
  • hitting
  • hobbling
  • hurt
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • impairment
  • incapacitating
  • injuring
  • injury
  • killing
  • kneecapping
  • lacerating
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • laming
  • lashing
  • licking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • mayhem
  • murdering
  • mutilating
  • mutilation
  • onslaught
  • outbreak
  • outrage
  • paddling
  • paralyzing
  • paroxysm
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • rage
  • rampage
  • revolt
  • riot
  • rupture
  • savagery
  • scarring
  • shock
  • slapping
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • socking
  • spanking
  • storm
  • strong-arming
  • swatting
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  • thumping
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  • tormenting
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  • turbulence
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  • violence
  • walloping
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  • whaling
  • whipping
  • winging
  • wounding

ramming

  • accelerating
  • arrowing
  • banging
  • barreling
  • barrelling
  • bashing
  • beating it
  • beelining
  • beetling
  • belting
  • blasting
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  • crashing
  • crowding
  • crushing
  • darting
  • dashing
  • driving
  • fast-forwarding
  • filling
  • flitting
  • flying
  • galloping
  • getting a move on
  • glancing
  • grazing
  • haring
  • hastening
  • heaping
  • hieing
  • highballing
  • hitting
  • humping
  • hurling
  • hurrying
  • hurtling
  • hustling
  • hying
  • impacting
  • impinging
  • jam-packing
  • jamming
  • jetting
  • jogging
  • jostling
  • jumping
  • kissing
  • knocking
  • landing
  • loading
  • making tracks
  • motoring
  • muscling
  • nipping
  • nudging
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overtaking
  • packing
  • pelting
  • pressing
  • pushing
  • quickening
  • racing
  • rebounding
  • ricocheting
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  • ripping
  • rocketing
  • running
  • rushing
  • rustling
  • sandwiching
  • scampering
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  • shaking a leg
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  • zooming

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