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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accepting

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  • sad
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  • shot
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  • simple
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  • sorrowful
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  • stab
  • stamp of approval
  • standing
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  • stock
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  • submitting to
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  • succumbing
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  • support
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  • supposing
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  • swallow whole
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  • sympathetic
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  • testament
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  • wretched
  • yes

accomplishing

  • accomplishment
  • achieving
  • acing
  • act
  • action
  • activity
  • actualizing
  • adequate
  • administering
  • at work
  • attaining
  • binding
  • biz
  • bringing about
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  • calling
  • capable
  • career
  • carrying off
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  • committing
  • compassing
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  • employment
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  • fabricating
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  • game
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  • handiwork
  • hang
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  • licit
  • line
  • maintaining
  • making
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  • manipulating
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  • occupation
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  • perfecting
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  • practicable
  • practicing
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  • producing
  • productive
  • prosecuting
  • pulling off
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  • qualified
  • racket
  • reaching
  • realizing
  • reduplicating
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  • shaping
  • sound
  • spinning
  • strong
  • successful
  • supervising
  • sustaining
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  • thing
  • transacting
  • turning
  • undertaking
  • useful
  • using
  • valid
  • venture
  • virtuous
  • vocation
  • wielding
  • winding up
  • work
  • workable

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