as in to wax
to defeat by a large margin
the local football team was shellacked 35-0 in their final outing for the season
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Recent Examples of shellac
But, seriously – does anyone believe the Heat’s youth benefited from the shellacking Cleveland handed them?
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Shane Young, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
After finishing as the Western Conference's top seed with one of the best records in league history, 68-14, the Thunder had emphatically shellacked Memphis in each of their first two games of the series.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
But Jimmy Butler is, despite the 112-86 shellacking the Miami Heat gave his Golden State Warriors Tuesday night.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
These big tech company stocks stood there no matter what kind of shellacking the futures dealt us.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Mar. 2025
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Shane Young, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
After finishing as the Western Conference's top seed with one of the best records in league history, 68-14, the Thunder had emphatically shellacked Memphis in each of their first two games of the series.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
But Jimmy Butler is, despite the 112-86 shellacking the Miami Heat gave his Golden State Warriors Tuesday night.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
These big tech company stocks stood there no matter what kind of shellacking the futures dealt us.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shellac
Verb
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As Hedges waxed poetic about Cantillo’s outing, Cantillo tried to hold back a smile.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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See the full list of competitors and their partners, then press PLAY on the video above to watch Ribeiro and Derek Hough wax nostalgic about that unexpected dancefloor interlude.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Then add the chicken broth and cream and bring to a simmer for 2 to 3 minutes, until the liquid reaches a gravy-like consistency.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Dr Pepper has invested heavily in marketing during college football games and come up with novel flavors like strawberries and cream to entice soda drinkers.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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For the first time, Israel launched an airstrike in Qatar, bombing a building in Doha that houses Hamas political leadership.—
Greg Dixon,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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Israel has also regularly bombed the south.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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How Wi-Fi HaLow Can Help Address These Needs To overcome connectivity gaps in large-scale environmental monitoring, some researchers and technologists are turning to Wi-Fi HaLow.—
Michael De Nil,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The movie adaptation is also rife with metaphors about boys becoming men and overcoming life-or-death circumstances to make it out the other side.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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His best friend’s little sister sets out to whip him back into shape.—
Tessa Bailey,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Boaters were the last to be warned to watch the sky as a line of wind-whipping storms pushed out to sea.—
Joe Dwinell,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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That missile may have AJ Lee and Brock Lesnar’s picture pasted on the side of it.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The stan fighting quickly turned ugly; a fan posted a racist meme of Huda as the police officer who murdered George Floyd, with Olandria’s face pasted on Floyd’s.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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As the late historian Barry Rubin documented in his biography of Arafat, the Palestinian leader used a variety of methods, both buying off and burying his opponents.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Early in the novel, Harold points out that authors are constantly looking for ways to bury their true beliefs in their text, rather than state them outright.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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My buddies hang skinned, whole deer in a walk-in cooler for up to two weeks before butchering.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
28 Aug. 2025
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This indicates the victims were skinned, the flesh removed, the bodies disarticulated, and then cooked and eaten.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Shellac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shellac. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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