caning

The word “caning” has 2 syllables: ca-ning

It's pronounced as /ˈkeɪnɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for caning?

In the thesaurus, “caning” has 102 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for caning along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for caning

  • assailing
  • assaulting
  • attacking
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • batting
  • beating
  • belaboring
  • belting
  • besetting
  • birching
  • blackjacking
  • bludgeoning
  • boxing
  • buffeting
  • bunging up
  • busting
  • chopping
  • clobbering
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • doing
  • drubbing
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flagellation
  • flailing
  • flogging
  • fustigating
  • goring
  • hammering
  • hiding
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • knocking
  • lacerating
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lamming
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • licking
  • maiming
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • mutilating
  • paddling
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • pistol-whipping
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • punching out
  • punishment
  • raiding
  • rawhiding
  • rushing
  • scourging
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slating
  • slogging
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • socking
  • spanking
  • storming
  • strapping
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tanning
  • thrashing
  • threshing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tromping
  • trouncing
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • working over
  • wounding

Meanings of caning

  • verb
    1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
    2. To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
    3. To do something well, in a competent fashion.
    4. To produce extreme pain.
    5. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
  • noun
    1. A beating with a cane.

Example Sentences

  • The school abolished caning as a form of punishment years ago.
  • He was punished by caning for repeatedly breaking the rules.
  • The practice of caning was once common in some parts of the world.
  • She protested against the use of caning in schools for discipline.
  • Caning is considered a harsh and outdated method of correction.

On this page you'll find 102 synonyms or another words to caning, such as: assailing, assaulting, attacking, bashing, basting, battering, batting.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

banging

  • agitation
  • barring
  • bashing
  • battering
  • batting
  • beaning
  • beating
  • belting
  • biffing
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bolting
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • bouncing
  • boxing
  • braining
  • brouhaha
  • brushing
  • buffeting
  • bulldozing
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  • bunging
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • caroming
  • chaining
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • closing
  • clouting
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  • 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
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  • pother
  • pounding
  • pressing
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  • pummeling
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  • punching
  • pushing
  • rabbit-punching
  • ramming
  • rapping
  • rebounding
  • ricocheting
  • ricochetting
  • roughing
  • sapping
  • scraping
  • scuffing
  • sealing
  • securing
  • shaving
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  • shutting
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  • 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

hammering

  • abating
  • abusing
  • admonishing
  • assailing
  • assaulting
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • banging
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • batting
  • bawling out
  • beaning
  • beating
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belittling
  • belting
  • berating
  • besetting
  • biffing
  • birching
  • blackjacking
  • blaming
  • blasting
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • boasting
  • bobbing
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • boxing
  • braining
  • buffet
  • buffeting
  • bump
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunging up
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • calling down
  • caning
  • carving
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chasing
  • chastising
  • chewing out
  • chiding
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • coining
  • collision
  • concussion
  • condemning
  • conking
  • contact
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • crash
  • creaming
  • criticizing
  • crucifying
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • cutting
  • decking
  • denouncing
  • disparaging
  • dissing
  • doing
  • drawing
  • dressing down
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • encounter
  • excoriating
  • fashioning
  • faulting
  • felling
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flailing
  • flaying
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • forging
  • forming
  • fustigating
  • goring
  • graving
  • hanging one on
  • haranguing
  • hewing
  • hiding
  • hit
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • impact
  • impingement
  • jabbing
  • jar
  • jawing
  • jolt
  • jostling
  • jounce
  • keelhauling
  • kick
  • kicking
  • knapping
  • kneading
  • kneeing
  • knock
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • lacerating
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lamming
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying into
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • 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
  • punching
  • punching out
  • pushing
  • putting down
  • rabbit-punching
  • ragging
  • raiding
  • rap
  • rapping
  • rating
  • rawhiding
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reproving
  • reviling
  • ridiculing
  • roughing
  • rushing
  • sapping
  • scoffing
  • scolding
  • scoring
  • scorning
  • scourging
  • scuffing
  • sculpting
  • sculpturing
  • 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

hanging one on

  • banging
  • bashing
  • battering
  • batting
  • beaning
  • beating
  • belting
  • biffing
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • boxing
  • braining
  • buffeting
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • conking
  • cracking
  • creaming
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • decking
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • felling
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • hammering
  • hitting
  • jabbing
  • jostling
  • kicking
  • kneeing
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lashing
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • licking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • nailing
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • prodding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • pushing
  • rabbit-punching
  • rapping
  • roughing
  • sapping
  • scuffing
  • shoving
  • skulling
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spearing
  • stabbing
  • stamping
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • tapping
  • thrashing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whipping
  • zapping

lacing

  • KO
  • adulterating
  • alternating
  • amalgamating
  • ambush
  • annihilation
  • aromatizing
  • assailing
  • assaulting
  • assimilating
  • attacking
  • attenuating
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • batting
  • beating
  • beating up on
  • befouling
  • belaboring
  • belting
  • besetting
  • birching
  • blackjacking
  • blending
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • boxing
  • braid
  • braiding
  • break
  • breakdown
  • buffeting
  • bungee cord
  • bunging up
  • busting
  • cable
  • caning
  • cheapening
  • check
  • chopping
  • clobbering
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • collapse
  • combining
  • commingling
  • conquest
  • contaminating
  • cord
  • cornrow
  • corrupting
  • count
  • counterfeiting
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • cutting
  • debacle
  • debasing
  • defeasance
  • defiling
  • degrading
  • destruction
  • diluting
  • dirtying
  • discomfiture
  • doctoring
  • doing
  • downthrow
  • dreadlock
  • drubbing
  • embarrassment
  • embodying
  • enhancing
  • enlacing
  • enriching
  • entwining
  • envenoming
  • extending
  • extermination
  • failure
  • faking
  • fall
  • falsifying
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flavoring
  • flogging
  • fouling
  • fudging
  • fusing
  • fustigating
  • goring
  • guy
  • halyard
  • hammering
  • hiding
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • implicating
  • incorporating
  • infecting
  • inserting
  • insuccess
  • integrating
  • interlacing
  • intermingling
  • interspersing
  • intertwining
  • intertwisting
  • interweaving
  • inweaving
  • joining
  • juxtaposing
  • killing
  • knocking
  • lace
  • lacerating
  • lambasting
  • lamming
  • lanyard
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • licking
  • line
  • linking
  • loading
  • loss
  • maiming
  • mangling
  • manipulating
  • massacre
  • mastery
  • mauling
  • merging
  • mingling
  • misrepresenting
  • mixing
  • moderating
  • mutilating
  • nonsuccess
  • overthrow
  • paddling
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • perfuming
  • pigtail
  • pistol-whipping
  • plait
  • plaiting
  • plat
  • platting
  • pleaching
  • plying
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • punching out
  • qualifying
  • queue
  • raiding
  • rawhiding
  • rebuff
  • repulse
  • reverse
  • rickrack
  • ricrac
  • rope
  • rout
  • ruin
  • rushing
  • salting
  • saucing
  • savoring
  • savouring
  • scalping
  • scourging
  • seasoning
  • setback
  • shellacking
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slating
  • slaughter
  • slogging
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • socking
  • soiling
  • sophisticating
  • spanking
  • spicing
  • spiking
  • spoiling
  • stay
  • storming
  • strapping
  • string
  • stripe
  • subjugation
  • sullying
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tainting
  • tanning
  • tempering
  • thinning
  • thrashing
  • threading
  • threshing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • trap
  • trashing
  • trimming
  • triumph
  • tromping
  • trouncing
  • twisting
  • vanquishment
  • walloping
  • watering down
  • waxing
  • weakening
  • weaving
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipcord
  • whipping
  • whitewashing
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • wire
  • working over
  • wounding
  • wreathing
  • writhing

lambasting

  • abuse
  • abusing
  • admonishing
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • affronting
  • aspersing
  • assailing
  • assault
  • assaulting
  • attack
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • batting
  • bawling out
  • bawling-out
  • beating
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belittlement
  • belittling
  • belting
  • berating
  • besetting
  • birching
  • blackguarding
  • blackjacking
  • blaming
  • blaspheming
  • blasting
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • boxing
  • broadside
  • buffet
  • buffeting
  • bump
  • bunging up
  • busting
  • calling down
  • caning
  • castigating
  • castigation
  • censure
  • censuring
  • chastising
  • chewing out
  • chiding
  • chopping
  • clobbering
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • collision
  • concussion
  • condemnation
  • condemning
  • contact
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • crash
  • criticism
  • criticizing
  • crucifying
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • cursing
  • denouncing
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • diatribe
  • disparagement
  • disparaging
  • dissing
  • doing
  • dressing down
  • drubbing
  • encounter
  • excoriating
  • excoriation
  • execrating
  • execration
  • faulting
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flaying
  • flogging
  • fulminating
  • fustigating
  • goring
  • hammering
  • harangue
  • haranguing
  • harassing
  • harrying
  • hiding
  • hit
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • impact
  • impingement
  • imprecating
  • insulting
  • invective
  • jar
  • jawing
  • jeremiad
  • jolt
  • jounce
  • keelhauling
  • kick
  • knock
  • knocking
  • lacerating
  • lacing
  • lamming
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying into
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • lecture
  • lecturing
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • licking
  • lighting into
  • maiming
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • meeting
  • mocking
  • mutilating
  • paddling
  • panning
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • philippic
  • pistol-whipping
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • potshotting
  • pounding
  • profaning
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • punching
  • punching out
  • putting down
  • ragging
  • raiding
  • rant
  • rap
  • rating
  • rawhiding
  • rebuke
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimand
  • reprimanding
  • reproach
  • reproaching
  • reproof
  • reproving
  • revilement
  • reviling
  • ridiculing
  • rushing
  • sailing into
  • savaging
  • scathing
  • scoffing
  • scolding
  • scoring
  • scorning
  • scourging
  • sermon
  • shock
  • slam
  • slamming
  • slandering
  • slap
  • slapping
  • slating
  • slogging
  • slurring
  • smacking
  • smash
  • smashing
  • socking
  • spanking
  • storming
  • strapping
  • strike
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • taking to task
  • tanning
  • thrashing
  • threshing
  • thump
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tirade
  • tongue-lashing
  • touch
  • traducing
  • trashing
  • tromping
  • tying into
  • upbraiding
  • vilifying
  • vituperating
  • vituperation
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • working over
  • wounding

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