单词	spank
释义	spankspank /spæŋk/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINspank Origin: 1700-1800 From the sound Verb Table VERB TABLE spank Simple Form Present I, you, we, they spank he, she, it spanks Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they spanked Present perfect I, you, we, they have spanked he, she, it has spanked Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had spanked Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will spank Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have spanked Continuous Form Present I am spanking he, she, it is spanking you, we, they are spanking Past I, he, she, it was spanking you, we, they were spanking Present perfect I, you, we, they have been spanking he, she, it has been spanking Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been spanking Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be spanking Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been spanking Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Arizona spanked Nevada 100-85. Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline. The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS At this point he spanked her bottom. He spanked them and he had them spank one another. He was spanked and now has to say he is speaking only for himself. I can't recall really spanking them. She was spanked by the outraged Emperor because, nude and proletarian, she was masquerading as a nymph. Thesaurus THESAURUSto hit someone► hit to hit someone quickly and hard with your hand, a stick etc: · He hit him hard in the stomach.· I don’t like to see people hitting a dog. ► beat to hit someone deliberately many times, especially very hard: · The girl had been beaten to death.· He was beating the donkey with a stick. ► strike written to hit someone with your hand or a weapon. Strike is more formal than hit and is mainly used in written English: · Her husband struck her twice across the face.· Police say that the man had been struck on the head. ► punch to hit someone hard with your closed hand, especially in a fight: · I punched him on the nose.· She was screaming and punching him with her fists. ► thump informal to punch someone very hard: · Sometimes I just want to thump him. ► beat somebody up to hurt someone badly in a violent attack, by hitting them many times: · If I tell the police, they'll beat me up.· He had been beaten up and tortured with lighted cigarettes. ► slap to hit someone with your open hand, especially because you are angry with them: · They had a big row and she ended up slapping him. ► spank (also smack especially British English) to hit someone, especially a child, with your open hand in order to punish them: · Should a parent ever smack a child?· I don’t agree with smacking.· In those days, children were spanked if they behaved badly. Longman Language Activatorto hit someone as a punishment► beat to repeatedly hit someone with your hand, with a stick etc as a punishment: · The guards used to regularly beat the prisoners.· Teachers are no longer allowed to beat students who misbehave.beat with: · Slaves were sometimes beaten with sticks or even whipped. ► spank to hit someone repeatedly, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand, on their bottom: · The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper.· Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline. ► smack/slap also swat American to hit someone, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand on their hand, the backs of their legs, their face etc: · If you don't stop that, I'll smack you!· Slap her hand lightly when she touches something she shouldn't.· He grinned and I wanted to swat him, but he wasn't my son so I didn't. ► give somebody a beating to hit someone violently and repeatedly with something such as a stick, in order to punish them: · The guards gave the prisoner a beating.give somebody a good/sound beating: · His father took him into the barn and gave him a good beating. ► whip/flog to hit someone very hard with a rope, whip etc especially on their back in order to punish them: · The hostage had terrible scars on his back where he had been whipped.· What kind of a society flogs women simply for saying what they think? ► corporal punishment the practice of punishing people, especially children at school, by hitting them with something such as a stick: · In my first year at Hendon School, I had my first taste of corporal punishment.· Corporal punishment is, thankfully, no longer used. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► spanking new  a spanking new (=completely new) conference centre to hit a child on their bottom with your open hand, as a punishment SYN  smack► see thesaurus at hit—spank noun [countable]:  a spank on the bottom
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