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shellacking (root: shellac)
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shellacking
beating, calcimining, clobbering, coating, covering, crushing defeat, debacle, decisive defeat, defeasance, drubbing, enameling, fresco, gilding, glazing, glossing, japanning, licking, no contest, overthrow, overwhelming defeat, painting, pasting, priming, rout, smashing defeat, smearing, staining, stippling, total defeat, trouncing, undercoating, utter defeat, vanquishment, varnishing, whipping, whitewash, whitewashing, whoppingFor further exploring for "shellacking" in Webster Dictionary Online