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Fighting Words

Attack With A Weapon:

Bat 

Belt

Birch - Beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment

Blast

Bleed

Blow Up

Bombard

Bomb

Boot

Brand

Buffet - A blow, typically of the hand or fist

Bump

Burn

Cane

Carve

Chop

Clout - A heavy blow with the hand or a hard object

Club

Cuff - Secure with handcuffs

Cut

Detonate - Explode or cause to explode

Ding - Hit (someone) especially on the head

. Criticize, injure, or penalize (someone)

Drive

Drub - Hit or beat (someone) repeatedly 

Flog - Beat (someone) with a whip or stick as punishment or torture

Hammer- Hit or beat (something) with a hammer or similar object

- Strike or knock at or on something violently with one's hand or with a hammer or other similar object

Jab - A quick, sharp blow, especially with the fist

- Poke (someone or something) roughly or quickly, especially with something sharp or pointed

Lash - Strike (someone) with a whip or stick

Pelt - Attack (someone) by repeatedly hurling things at them

- Run somewhere very quickly

Penetrate - Succeed in forcing a way into or through (a thing)

Pierce- (Of a sharp pointed object) go into or through (something)

Plunge - Push or thrust quickly

Poke

Prick

Puncture

Shell

Shock

Shoot

Slice

Smart - (Of a wound or part of the body) feel or cause a sharp stinging pain

Spear

Stab

Stick

Sting

Strap - Punishment by beating with a strip of leather

Switch

Thwack - Strike forcefully with a sharp blow

Torpedo

Whip

Zap

Attack Without A Weapon

Bash- Strike hard and violently

- Damage or break something by striking it violently

Batter - Strike repeatedly with hard blows