{ "whump":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": bang , thump":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1897, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "imitative":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8(h)w\u0259mp" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010034", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "whup":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to administer a beating to especially as punishment":[], ": to defeat decisively":[] }, "examples":[ "The boxer whupped his overmatched opponent.", "Our team got whupped in last night's game.", "Recent Examples on the Web", "As a metro-area duo, though, Johnson and Fisher would whup any bad-owner tag team from any other city. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Nov. 2021", "Real material and social progress is rarely made up out of glorious and dramatic crusades, though we are called to crusade from time to time: Hitler ain\u2019t gonna whup his self. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 14 Sep. 2017" ], "first_known_use":{ "1852, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "alteration of whip":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8(h)wu\u0307p" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "annihilate", "blow away", "bomb", "bury", "clobber", "cream", "drub", "dust", "flatten", "paste", "rout", "shellac", "skin", "skunk", "smoke", "smother", "snow under", "thrash", "trim", "tromp", "trounce", "wallop", "wax", "whip", "whomp", "whop", "whap" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102651", "type":[ "verb" ] } }