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Licking
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1. defeat, licking
an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
Example Sentences:'it was a narrow defeat''the army's only defeat''they suffered a convincing licking'
2. beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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