• body blow, heavy blow, severe blow
• to sink under the weight of adversity
• to fiddle while Rome burns
• to smite, smote, smitten
• bluff, burn, chisel, cole, craft, dupery, fraud, gouge, hocus pocus, napping, sell, twist, victimization
• pounce, precipitation, smash, swoop
• bash, blow, buffet, cuff, milling, punch