Definition for Whaling:

• The business of catching whales.

Synonyms for Whaling:

• adj.

  •giant (adjective)
  • gross,
  • monstrous,
  • elephantine,
  • enormous,
  • blimp,
  • vast,
  • Brobdingnagian,
  • colossal,
  • humongous,
  • cyclopean,
  • jumbo,
  • big,
  • huge,
  • gargantuan,
  • herculean,
  • immense,
  • mountainous,
  • mammoth,
  • prodigious,
  • titanic,
  • hulking.

• n.

  •
  • nautical.
  •defeat (noun)
  • lacing,
  • break,
  • conquest,
  • subjugations,
  • count,
  • breakdown,
  • lacings,
  • ruin,
  • extermination,
  • annihilation,
  • non-success,
  • loss,
  • debacle,
  • licking,
  • trouncing,
  • fall,
  • Scalping,
  • kos,
  • mastery,
  • triumph,
  • ko,
  • massacre,
  • drubbing,
  • discomfiture,
  • embarrassment,
  • trap,
  • failure,
  • setback,
  • collapse,
  • Vanquishment,
  • nonsuccess,
  • beating,
  • whipping,
  • ambush,
  • blow,
  • Insuccess,
  • repulse,
  • subjugation,
  • Paddling,
  • trimming,
  • Defeasance,
  • destruction,
  • check,
  • waxing,
  • reverse,
  • shellacking,
  • killing,
  • rout,
  • rebuff,
  • thrashing,
  • waxings,
  • trouncings,
  • slaughter,
  • Whitewashing,
  • Downthrow,
  • Trashing.

• v.

  •beat (verb)
  • strike.
  •blubber (verb)
  • seethe,
  • wail,
  • thick,
  • flab,
  • fat,
  • nettle,
  • blub,
  • weep,
  • sob,
  • swell,
  • flitch,
  • whine,
  • whimper,
  • swollen.
  •flail (verb)
  • smash,
  • sock.
  •flog (verb)
  • larrup,
  • stripe,
  • paddle,
  • tan one's hide,
  • beat,
  • scourge,
  • whack,
  • hide,
  • flay,
  • flax,
  • leather,
  • lather,
  • ferule,
  • give the cat o'nine tails,
  • whomp,
  • wax,
  • whop,
  • chastise.
  •pummel (verb)
  • wham,
  • let one have it.
  •slug (verb)
  • clobber,
  • clock,
  • bump,
  • crack,
  • let have it,
  • pop,
  • slam,
  • jab,
  • nail.
  •tan (verb)
  • paddlewhack.
  •thresh (verb)
  • assault,
  • assail,
  • belabor,
  • rain blows on.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • big game,
  • capture,
  • bite,
  • bag,
  • blood sports,
  • cast,
  • angling,
  • bait.

Paraphrases for Whaling:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    whale.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    kills, harvesting, hunt, hunts, fishery, Fisheries.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    searching, Chasing, stalking, hunting, harvesting, hunt.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hunting, whaler, fishing.

Antonyms for Whaling:

• adj.

  • giant
    little, miniature, dwarf, teeny, tiny, minute, small, miniscule, minor.

• n.

  • defeat
    boon, victory, win, yielding, accomplishment, surrender, achievement, success, attainment, mastery.
  • licking
    forfeit, loss, construction, good fortune, rise, building, creation.

• v.

  • beat
    fail, relinquish, aid, cede, lose, tap, praise, retreat, protect, help, guard, compliment, assist.
  • scourge
    forgive, comfort, laud, please.
  • thresh
    fix, mend, let go.

Whaling Sentence Examples:

• Tragedy always hangs above a whaling vessel.

• Nearly all whaling is done by steamers and not very far from the coast, say within a day's steaming.