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FLOG

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: flogged    , flogging   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beat severely with a whip or rod

Example:

The children were severely trounced

Synonyms:

flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "flog" is one way to...):

beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flog"):

flagellate; scourge (whip)

leather (whip with a leather strap)

horsewhip (whip with a whip intended for horses)

switch (flog with or as if with a flexible rod)

cowhide (flog with a cowhide)

cat (beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails)

birch (whip with a birch twig)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to flog the prisoners

Derivation:

flogging (beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Beat with a cane

Synonyms:

cane; flog; lambast; lambaste

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "flog" is one way to...):

beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to flog the prisoners

Derivation:

flogging (beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment)

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