cudgeled

verb

variants or cudgelled
Definition of cudgelednext
past tense of cudgel
as in jumped (on)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cudgeled
  1. chopped
  2. smacked
  3. hit
  4. attacked
  5. assailed
Verb
  • After all, a double-digit yield isn’t much good if it is soon chopped to single digits.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • In the intervening decades, though, the surviving members have seen their statement get chopped and screwed into morsels, divorced from its context.
    Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of chopped
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  • The old chief attempted to do a special review of Bitcoin miners but got smacked down by a federal court.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Freeman, who had been struggling through an ankle injury, smacked the first pitch from Nestor Cortes 413 feet in the 10th inning of Game 1 for the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history.
    NBC Los Angeles, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of smacked
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  • Japan's fertility rate hit a low of 1.20 births expected per woman's lifetime last year, well below the replacement rate of 2.1.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
  • With those gains, the market had a massive year, as all three major averages hit new intraday and closing records in the month of December alone.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of hit
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  • Two months after the end of the Korean War, the United States signed a bilateral mutual security treaty with South Korea in which Washington committed to come to Seoul’s aid if it were attacked.
    Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Caretakers at All Things Wild Rehabilitation believe that Polly, a 1-year-old Pekin duck who's missing part of her bill, was dumped at a pond by her former owner and attacked by a snapping turtle.
    Natalie Escobar, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of attacked
Verb
  • Many online also praised Luigi Mangione, the murder suspect, who assailed large corporations in writings found by police.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But the deal was almost immediately assailed as inadequate by a string of delegates.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of assailed
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cudgel

cudgeled

cudgeled one's brains (about)

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