lathering

The word “lathering” has 3 syllables: lath-er-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈlæðərɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for lathering?

In the thesaurus, “lathering” has 99 synonyms.

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


Synonyms for lathering

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

Meanings of lathering

  • verb
    1. To cover with lather.
    2. To beat or whip.
    3. To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
  • noun
    1. The act of lathering; a covering with lather.

Example Sentences

  • She spent a few minutes lathering the soap in her hands.
  • He was lathering shaving cream onto his face before grabbing the razor.
  • The dog enjoyed lathering up in the shampoo during bath time.
  • After a long day, she relaxed by lathering her body with a fragrant body wash.
  • The barber was carefully lathering the client’s beard before the shave.

On this page you'll find 99 synonyms or another words to lathering, 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

quirting

  • banging
  • bashing
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  • battering
  • batting
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  • belaboring
  • belting
  • birching
  • blackjacking
  • bludgeoning
  • bopping
  • boxing
  • buffeting
  • bunging
  • busting
  • caning
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • cudgeling
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  • cuffing
  • cutting
  • drubbing
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • fustigating
  • hammering
  • hiding
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • knocking
  • knouting
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lamming
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • leathering
  • licking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • paddling
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • pistol-whipping
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • rawhiding
  • roughing
  • scourging
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • slating
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spanking
  • strapping
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tanning
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  • threshing
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  • touching up
  • tromping
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • working over

paddling

  • KO
  • ambush
  • annihilation
  • assailing
  • assault
  • assaulting
  • attack
  • attacking
  • barbarity
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • battery
  • batting
  • beating
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belting
  • besetting
  • birching
  • blackjacking
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • boxing
  • break
  • breakdown
  • browbeating
  • brutality
  • buffeting
  • bulldozing
  • bullying
  • bunging up
  • busting
  • caning
  • canoeing
  • check
  • chopping
  • clobbering
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • collapse
  • conquest
  • count
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • crippling
  • cruising
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • damage
  • debacle
  • defeasance
  • destruction
  • detriment
  • discomfiture
  • doing
  • downthrow
  • drifting
  • drubbing
  • embarrassment
  • extermination
  • failure
  • fall
  • feathering
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flagellation
  • flogging
  • force
  • foul play
  • frenzy
  • fury
  • fustigating
  • goring
  • hammering
  • harm
  • hectoring
  • hiding
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • hurt
  • impairment
  • injury
  • insuccess
  • kayaking
  • killing
  • knocking
  • lacerating
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lamming
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • licking
  • loss
  • maiming
  • mangling
  • massacre
  • mastery
  • mauling
  • mayhem
  • mutilating
  • mutilation
  • nonsuccess
  • oaring
  • onslaught
  • outbreak
  • outrage
  • overthrow
  • paroxysm
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • pistol-whipping
  • poling
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • pulling
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • punching out
  • punting
  • rage
  • raiding
  • rampage
  • rawhiding
  • rebuff
  • repulse
  • reverse
  • revolt
  • riot
  • rout
  • rowing
  • ruin
  • rupture
  • rushing
  • sailing
  • savagery
  • scalping
  • scourging
  • sculling
  • setback
  • shellacking
  • shock
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slating
  • slaughter
  • slogging
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • socking
  • spanking
  • storm
  • storming
  • strapping
  • strong-arming
  • subjugation
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tanning
  • terror
  • thrashing
  • threat
  • threshing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • trap
  • trashing
  • trawling
  • trimming
  • triumph
  • tromping
  • trouncing
  • tumult
  • turbulence
  • upheaval
  • uproar
  • vanquishment
  • violence
  • walloping
  • waxing
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whitewashing
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • working over
  • wounding
  • yachting

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

yacking

  • babbling
  • blabbering
  • blathering
  • bleating
  • blithering
  • bombastic
  • bumbling
  • chattering
  • chatting
  • chatty
  • chuntering
  • circumlocutory
  • diffuse
  • driveling
  • drivelling
  • drooling
  • flowery
  • fluent
  • full of air
  • fustian
  • gabbing
  • gabbling
  • gabby
  • garrulous
  • gibbering
  • gossipy
  • grandiloquent
  • involved
  • jabbering
  • jangling
  • jawing
  • long-winded
  • loose-lipped
  • loquacious
  • magniloquent
  • maundering
  • motormouth
  • mouthing
  • multiloquent
  • mumbling
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • palaverous
  • pattering
  • periphrastic
  • pleonastic
  • prating
  • prattling
  • prolix
  • rattling
  • redundant
  • repeating
  • repetitious
  • repetitive
  • rhetorical
  • running on
  • screeching
  • shouting
  • shrieking
  • smattering
  • sputtering
  • stammering
  • stuttering
  • talkative
  • talky
  • tautological
  • tautologous
  • tedious
  • tittle-tattling
  • tortuous
  • trolling
  • verbose
  • voluble
  • windy
  • wordy

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