icing

The word “icing” has 2 syllables: i-cing

It's pronounced as /ˈaɪsɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for icing?

In the thesaurus, “icing” has 92 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for icing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for icing

  • annihilating
  • assassinating
  • assuring
  • attesting
  • award
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benevolence
  • bestowal
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • boon
  • bounty
  • bumping off
  • butchering
  • carrying off
  • certifying
  • charity
  • cinching
  • claiming
  • contribution
  • cream
  • croaking
  • cutting down
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • doing away with
  • doing in
  • donation
  • eliminating
  • ensuring
  • eradicating
  • executing
  • exterminating
  • favor
  • felling
  • freebee
  • freebie
  • fringe benefit
  • generosity
  • getting
  • gift
  • giveaway
  • glaze
  • grant
  • guaranteeing
  • guarantying
  • insuring
  • killing
  • knocking off
  • largess
  • largesse
  • liquidating
  • manna
  • massacring
  • murdering
  • neutralizing
  • offering
  • offing
  • ornamentation
  • pension
  • philanthropy
  • pledging
  • premium
  • present
  • presentation
  • prize
  • promising
  • putting away
  • reward
  • rubbing out
  • securing
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smiting
  • snuffing
  • subsidy
  • sugar paste
  • swearing
  • taking out
  • terminating
  • topping
  • trimming
  • vouching
  • warranting
  • whacking
  • windfall
  • wiping out
  • witnessing
  • zapping

Antonyms for icing

  • animating
  • enfeebling
  • raising
  • restoring
  • resurrecting
  • resuscitating
  • reviving
  • undermining
  • weakening

Meanings of icing

  • noun
    1. A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
    2. A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
    3. The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
  • verb
    1. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
    2. To become ice; to freeze.
    3. To make icy; to freeze.
    4. To murder.
    5. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
    6. To put out a team for a match.
    7. To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

Example Sentences

  • The cake looked delicious with a thick layer of creamy icing.
  • She skillfully applied the final touches of colorful icing to the cupcakes.
  • The baker perfected the art of creating intricate designs with royal icing.
  • The warm cinnamon rolls were topped with a generous swirl of sweet icing.
  • The birthday cake sparkled with edible glitter on its glossy icing.

On this page you'll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to icing, such as: animating, annihilating, assassinating, assuring, attesting, award, benefaction.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • blazing
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • bringing down
  • butchering
  • croaking
  • decimating
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • doing in
  • drilling
  • dropping
  • felling
  • gunning
  • icing
  • killing
  • massacring
  • peppering
  • picking off
  • pistoling
  • pistolling
  • plugging
  • popping
  • potshotting
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • shotgunning
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • tommy-gunning
  • wiping out

lagniappe

quick-freezing

  • air-conditioning
  • chilling
  • cooling
  • freezing
  • frosting
  • icing
  • refrigerating
  • supercooling
  • ventilating

taking

taking out

  • abstracting
  • abstraction
  • accompanying
  • acting out
  • airing
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • assassinating
  • assassination
  • blitz
  • blood
  • blood and guts
  • blood bath
  • bloodshed
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • budging
  • bump-off
  • bumping off
  • butchering
  • butchery
  • carnage
  • carrying off
  • claiming
  • clearing
  • courting
  • crime
  • croaking
  • cutting
  • cutting down
  • dating
  • death
  • demounting
  • derivation
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • dislocating
  • dislodging
  • dispatching
  • displacing
  • disturbing
  • doing away with
  • doing in
  • drawing
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  • elicitation
  • eliminating
  • eradicating
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  • escorting
  • evocation
  • evulsion
  • executing
  • expressing
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  • exterminating
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  • extirpation
  • extracting
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  • felling
  • felony
  • foul play
  • getting
  • gore
  • havoc
  • hecatomb
  • hit
  • holocaust
  • homicide
  • icing
  • killing
  • knifing
  • knocking off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loosing
  • lynching
  • manslaughter
  • mass murder
  • massacre
  • massacring
  • moving
  • murder
  • murdering
  • neutralizing
  • off
  • offing
  • one-way ticket
  • pulling
  • putting away
  • rapine
  • releasing
  • removing
  • rubbing out
  • rubout
  • search and destroy
  • seeing
  • separation
  • shambles
  • shifting
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • slaughter
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smiting
  • snuffing
  • stating
  • terminating
  • terrorism
  • the business
  • the works
  • transferring
  • transposing
  • unleashing
  • uprooting
  • ventilating
  • venting
  • voicing
  • warfare
  • wasting
  • whacking
  • wiping out
  • withdrawal
  • withdrawing
  • wooing
  • wrenching
  • wresting
  • zapping

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