icing

The word “icing” has 2 syllables: i-cing

It's pronounced as /ˈaɪsɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for icing?

In the thesaurus, “icing” has 92 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for icing

  • annihilating
  • assassinating
  • assuring
  • attesting
  • award
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benevolence
  • bestowal
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • boon
  • bounty
  • bumping off
  • butchering
  • carrying off
  • certifying
  • charity
  • cinching
  • claiming
  • contribution
  • cream
  • croaking
  • cutting down
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • doing away with
  • doing in
  • donation
  • eliminating
  • ensuring
  • eradicating
  • executing
  • exterminating
  • favor
  • felling
  • freebee
  • freebie
  • fringe benefit
  • generosity
  • getting
  • gift
  • giveaway
  • glaze
  • grant
  • guaranteeing
  • guarantying
  • insuring
  • killing
  • knocking off
  • largess
  • largesse
  • liquidating
  • manna
  • massacring
  • murdering
  • neutralizing
  • offering
  • offing
  • ornamentation
  • pension
  • philanthropy
  • pledging
  • premium
  • present
  • presentation
  • prize
  • promising
  • putting away
  • reward
  • rubbing out
  • securing
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smiting
  • snuffing
  • subsidy
  • sugar paste
  • swearing
  • taking out
  • terminating
  • topping
  • trimming
  • vouching
  • warranting
  • whacking
  • windfall
  • wiping out
  • witnessing
  • zapping

Antonyms for icing

  • animating
  • enfeebling
  • raising
  • restoring
  • resurrecting
  • resuscitating
  • reviving
  • undermining
  • weakening

Meanings of icing

  • noun
    1. A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
    2. A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
    3. The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
  • verb
    1. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
    2. To become ice; to freeze.
    3. To make icy; to freeze.
    4. To murder.
    5. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
    6. To put out a team for a match.
    7. To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

Example Sentences

  • The cake looked delicious with a thick layer of creamy icing.
  • She skillfully applied the final touches of colorful icing to the cupcakes.
  • The baker perfected the art of creating intricate designs with royal icing.
  • The warm cinnamon rolls were topped with a generous swirl of sweet icing.
  • The birthday cake sparkled with edible glitter on its glossy icing.

On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to icing, such as: animating, annihilating, assassinating, assuring, attesting, award, benefaction.

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

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machine-gunning

  • annihilating
  • blazing
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • bringing down
  • butchering
  • croaking
  • decimating
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • doing in
  • drilling
  • dropping
  • felling
  • gunning
  • icing
  • killing
  • massacring
  • peppering
  • picking off
  • pistoling
  • pistolling
  • plugging
  • popping
  • potshotting
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • shotgunning
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • tommy-gunning
  • wiping out

lagniappe

  • alms
  • award
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benevolence
  • bequest
  • bestowal
  • bonus
  • boon
  • bounty
  • box
  • care package
  • charity
  • comp
  • contribution
  • courtesy
  • cumshaw
  • dividend
  • dole
  • donation
  • donative
  • dowry
  • extra
  • fairing
  • favor
  • foy
  • freebee
  • freebie
  • fringe benefit
  • generosity
  • gift
  • giveaway
  • grant
  • gratuity
  • gravy
  • gravy train
  • handout
  • handsel
  • icing
  • largess
  • largesse
  • legacy
  • manna
  • oblation
  • offering
  • pension
  • perk
  • perquisite
  • philanthropy
  • premium
  • present
  • presentation
  • prize
  • propine
  • remembrance
  • reward
  • sacrifice
  • subsidy
  • throw-in
  • tip
  • tithe
  • tribute
  • valentine
  • windfall

quick-freezing

  • air-conditioning
  • chilling
  • cooling
  • freezing
  • frosting
  • icing
  • refrigerating
  • supercooling
  • ventilating

taking

  • Junoesque
  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • accommodating
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acting
  • addressing
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adorable
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • affecting
  • agreeable
  • allowing
  • alluring
  • annihilating
  • appealing
  • appointing
  • arresting
  • asking
  • assassinating
  • assuming
  • attractive
  • bearing
  • beating
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • beckoning
  • begging
  • behaving
  • believing
  • besting
  • bettering
  • bewitching
  • bidding
  • biding
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • blowing out
  • bombing
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • breaking
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • bumping off
  • burying
  • butchering
  • buying
  • calling for
  • capitulating
  • capping
  • captivating
  • carrying
  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • catching
  • challenging
  • charming
  • cherry-picking
  • chocolate-box
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • clasping
  • clenching
  • clobbering
  • clutching
  • comely
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • communicative
  • concluding
  • confirming
  • conquering
  • contagious
  • containing
  • contracting
  • controlling
  • copping
  • countenancing
  • creaming
  • crediting
  • croaking
  • crushing
  • culling
  • cunning
  • cute
  • cutting down
  • dainty
  • decimating
  • deducing
  • defeating
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demanding
  • designating
  • desirable
  • destroying
  • directing
  • dishy
  • dispatching
  • doing away with
  • doing down
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • dollish
  • drop-dead
  • drubbing
  • eclipsing
  • electing
  • elegant
  • embracing
  • enchanting
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enduring
  • enfolding
  • engaging
  • engineering
  • enjoining
  • entailing
  • entering
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • espousing
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • executing
  • expansive
  • exquisite
  • eye-catching
  • failing
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • felling
  • fellowshiping
  • fellowshipping
  • fetching
  • fielding
  • financing
  • finessing
  • finishing
  • fitting
  • fixing
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flattening
  • flawless
  • flourishing
  • foxy
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • getting
  • getting around
  • getting off
  • getting the better of
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • going
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • grasping
  • gripping
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • handling
  • handpicking
  • handsome
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • having
  • having a grip on
  • holding
  • hot
  • housing
  • hunky
  • icing
  • inclosing
  • infectious
  • inferring
  • influencing
  • insisting
  • interesting
  • inviting
  • involving
  • jockeying
  • killing
  • killing off
  • knocking for a loop
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • knockout
  • lacking
  • languishing
  • laying hold of
  • licking
  • likely
  • living with
  • looker
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luring
  • luscious
  • magnetic
  • magnificent
  • making away with
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • marking
  • martyring
  • massacring
  • mastering
  • meeting
  • mesmeric
  • micromanaging
  • mowing
  • murdering
  • nabbing
  • naming
  • necessitating
  • needing
  • negotiating
  • neutralizing
  • nominating
  • nosing out
  • nubile
  • obtaining
  • offering
  • offing
  • okaying
  • operating
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • pandemic
  • panning out
  • perfect
  • performing
  • permitting
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • picking
  • picking up
  • pipping
  • playing
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pocketing
  • preferring
  • prepossessing
  • preselecting
  • presentable
  • pressing
  • presuming
  • pretty
  • prettyish
  • procuring
  • provocative
  • pulchritudinous
  • pulling
  • purchasing
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • questing
  • radiant
  • ratifying
  • ravishing
  • reacting
  • rebuying
  • receiving
  • redounding
  • regulating
  • repurchasing
  • requiring
  • respecting
  • resplendent
  • responding
  • resulting
  • routing
  • rubbing out
  • running
  • sanctioning
  • scoring
  • scragging
  • seating
  • securing
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • seizing
  • selecting
  • setting
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • sexy
  • shellacking
  • shouldering
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • slick
  • smiting
  • smoking
  • snatching
  • snazzy
  • snowing under
  • snuffing
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • standing
  • standing for
  • statuesque
  • steering
  • sticking out
  • stipulating
  • stomaching
  • stopping
  • striking
  • studly
  • stunning
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • sublime
  • succeeding
  • suffering
  • suiciding
  • superb
  • supporting
  • supposing
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • swaying
  • sweating out
  • sweeping
  • sweet
  • swinging
  • tabbing
  • tagging
  • taking effect
  • taking hold
  • taking out
  • tantalizing
  • tapping
  • teasing
  • telegenic
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • thrashing
  • tolerating
  • toothsome
  • topping
  • toughing it out
  • transcending
  • transferable
  • transmittable
  • treating
  • trimming
  • trouncing
  • trusting
  • understanding
  • unseating
  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • wasting
  • waxing
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • welcoming
  • well-favored
  • whacking
  • whipping
  • wilting
  • winning
  • winsome
  • withering
  • working
  • worsening
  • worsting
  • zingy

taking out

  • abstracting
  • abstraction
  • accompanying
  • acting out
  • airing
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • assassinating
  • assassination
  • blitz
  • blood
  • blood and guts
  • blood bath
  • bloodshed
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • budging
  • bump-off
  • bumping off
  • butchering
  • butchery
  • carnage
  • carrying off
  • claiming
  • clearing
  • courting
  • crime
  • croaking
  • cutting
  • cutting down
  • dating
  • death
  • demounting
  • derivation
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • dislocating
  • dislodging
  • dispatching
  • displacing
  • disturbing
  • doing away with
  • doing in
  • drawing
  • drawing off
  • drawing out
  • elicitation
  • eliminating
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • escorting
  • evocation
  • evulsion
  • executing
  • expressing
  • expression
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extirpation
  • extracting
  • extrication
  • felling
  • felony
  • foul play
  • getting
  • gore
  • havoc
  • hecatomb
  • hit
  • holocaust
  • homicide
  • icing
  • killing
  • knifing
  • knocking off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loosing
  • lynching
  • manslaughter
  • mass murder
  • massacre
  • massacring
  • moving
  • murder
  • murdering
  • neutralizing
  • off
  • offing
  • one-way ticket
  • pulling
  • putting away
  • rapine
  • releasing
  • removing
  • rubbing out
  • rubout
  • search and destroy
  • seeing
  • separation
  • shambles
  • shifting
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • slaughter
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smiting
  • snuffing
  • stating
  • terminating
  • terrorism
  • the business
  • the works
  • transferring
  • transposing
  • unleashing
  • uprooting
  • ventilating
  • venting
  • voicing
  • warfare
  • wasting
  • whacking
  • wiping out
  • withdrawal
  • withdrawing
  • wooing
  • wrenching
  • wresting
  • zapping

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