Usually means: Striking with a short club.
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  1. cudgeling: Merriam-Webster
  2. cudgeling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cudgeling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cudgeling: Vocabulary.com
  5. cudgeling: Wordnik
  6. cudgeling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cudgeling: Wiktionary
  8. Cudgeling, cudgeling: Dictionary.com
  9. Cudgeling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Cudgeling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. cudgeling: FreeDictionary.org
  12. cudgeling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cudgeling: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  A beating with a cudgel.

Similar:
bastinado, bastinade, caning, drubbing, clobbering, pummeling, battering, whacking, cuffing, bludgeoning, more...

Opposite:
soothing, calming, pacifying, comforting, relaxing

Adjectives:
good, sound, severe, brutal, much, respectful, civil

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Similar:
bastinado, bastinade, caning, drubbing, clobbering, pummeling, battering, whacking, cuffing, bludgeoning, more...

Opposite:
soothing, calming, pacifying, comforting, relaxing

Adjectives:
good, sound, severe, brutal, much, respectful, civil



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