transitive. To hit or beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently, esp. as a punishment, usually with an implement such as a stick or whip…

transitive. To strike with repeated blows. to beat the breast: i.e. in sign of sorrow.

absol. and intransitive. To deal blows; to make an attack. Chiefly in phraseological expressions with… to lay onor upon: to attack vigorously, to…

To inflict punishment or suffering upon, with a view to amendment; also simply, to punish, to inflict punishment (esp. corporal punishment) on.

transitive. To strike, hit. In early use: to strike (esp. a person) forcefully. Now: to strike (a person or thing) in a sharp, usually relatively…

transitive. To treat (a person) in a certain way; spec. to treat (a person) appropriately or fittingly. In later use chiefly ironically: to…

transitive. To beat.

figurative. To give what is due or deserved to (a person). transitive. To strike, beat, or flog (a person); to punish by beating. Also: to…

transferred. To beat or thrash one's hide for him, give a drubbing to. Also figurative.

transitive. To beat, thrash.

transitive. To strike with the fist, or with the open hand; to buffet.

transitive. To beat or thrash (a person, animal, etc.), esp. with a stick or other implement; to flog.

transitive. To beat or strike vigorously, as with a stick; to bang, thrash, whack.

slang. To beat, thrash. Also, to drive (something) out of (a person) by thrashing. †to lick off: to cut off clean, to slice off.

transitive. To beat, whip, lash, trounce, drub. Obsolete exc. archaic.

To beat, thrash, belabour, cudgel; to beat by way of punishment, to flog.

To beat, flog. Chiefly absol. Obsolete exc. dialect.

To chase or drive with blows; hence, to drub, trounce, thrash. Obsolete.

transitive. To give a beating to (a person); to beat soundly, thrash. Cf. bumbaste, v., feague, v.

transitive. To beat, whip. Also figurative.

transitive. To beat, thrash. Also figurative.

transitive. To beat, to thrash.

ironically. To beat, chastise.

transitive. To hit or beat (a person or animal), esp. as a punishment, usually with an implement such as a stick or whip; to strike repeatedly and…

transitive. To beat soundly; to thrash; to ‘whack’. Now colloquial or dialect.

transitive. To give a beating to (a person); = bumfeage, v.

humorously. To beat, thrash, give a ‘dressing’ to; e.g. in to comb a person's head with a three-legged stool, etc.

Apparently meaningless: see context of quot. 1600, of which the phrase in quot. 1611 is probably an echo.

transitive. To beat, thrash.

To whip, flog, thrash. Obsolete exc. dialect.

To beat, flog, thrash, belabour. Also figurative = taw, v.1 3a 3b Obsolete.

slang. (transitive) To beat (a person). ? Obsolete.

The threat ‘I'll feeze you’ seems to have given rise to the following senses. To beat, flog.

transitive. To beat or strike so as to cause pain, esp. by way of punishment. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To strike with a fly-flap; to beat, whip.

To beat, thump (anything); to thrash. Obsolete.

transitive. To beat, thrash. colloquial.

transitive. To beat, to thrash.

transitive. To beat, whip; to chastise with repeated blows of a rod or whip.

transitive. to tan (a person's) hide, also simply to tan (a person): to thrash soundly. slang or colloquial. (Cf. hide, v.2 2) Occasionally intrans…

transitive. To beat or strike with a slipper.

slang. To thrash, beat; esp. in to liquor (a person's) hide. Obsolete.

transitive. To rub down or groom with a curry-comb; to curry. Also transferred and figurative: see curry, v.1

transitive. To beat or strike vigorously, as with a stick; to thrash.

transitive. To flog, scourge, beat. Now rare.

transitive. To flog, scourge, or beat. Now rare.

transitive. To beat, flog, thrash. Also with const.

To beat, thrash. Also intransitive with into. Also figurative.

transitive. A euphemism for: To flog. Obsolete slang.

slang. To flog. ? Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. To beat, flog, thrash.

dialect. To beat, flog.

transitive. Originally English regional (northern and north-eastern). To punish by blows, to beat. Cf. hazing, n. 1a. Now rare.

U.S. a course of sprouts: a beating or flogging; (in later use) a period or instance of harsh or severe discipline or training. Chiefly in to put (a…

(Anglo-Irish.) To beat, flog. In quot. 1841 absol.

transitive. To flog, esp. at school.

To beat the hide or skin of; to flog, thrash. (See also hiding, n.2) slang or colloquial.

transitive. To flog at the triangles (triangle, n. 2l).

to give (a person or thing) gyp: (of a person) to punish or admonish (a person); to assault or beat (a person or thing); (hence in later use) to…

colloquial or slang. U.S. slang. To punish, beat, pummel, strike hard, etc.; to criticize harshly, to ‘knock’; to soak it to (one) = to sock it to at…

slang. to loosen (a person's) hide: to flog.