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单词 flogging
释义
floggingflog‧ging /ˈflɒɡɪŋ $ ˈflɑːɡɪŋ/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But bring back flogging - abolished as recently as 1861 - they could, and did.
  • Man United's owners the Edwards family made his fortune flogging rotten meat to school kitchens.
  • Melville was outraged by the floggings administered to the seamen.
  • Officials had stressed that the proposed flogging would be to humiliate Mr Brown, not draw blood.
  • There'd be a flogging or worse if they took her with stolen clothes.
  • Though flogging was restricted, the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled.
  • Wearing eight layers of clothing including a duvet, I was almost pleasantly warm flogging up to the bottom of the crag.
word sets
WORD SETS
alarmed, adjectiveallegation, nounamnesty, nounbail, nounbreath test, nouncharge sheet, nouncircumstantial, adjectivecompensation, nouncompensatory, adjectivecomplicity, nouncondemned, adjectivecondemned cell, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconman, nouncontraband, nouncuff, verbdebug, verbdetain, verbdick, nounenforce, verbfed, nounFederal Bureau of Investigation, nounflogging, nounforensic, adjectivegallows, noungaolbird, noungas chamber, noungibbet, nounguillotine, nounhang, verbhanging, nounhard labour, nounimpeach, verbKC, nounlaunder, verblawsuit, nounleg irons, nounlicensed, adjectivelicensing laws, nounlife, nounlife sentence, nounline-up, nounlynch, verblynch mob, nounpenalty point, nounpenology, nounpolygraph, nounposse, nounprisoner, nounracket, nounracketeer, nounracketeering, nounrake-off, nounransom, nounransom, verbreport, verbreprieve, nounriot, nounshop, verbsilk, nounspeed trap, nounstalker, nounstrip search, nountransport, verbtransportation, nountribunal, nounundercover, adjectivevictim, nounwrongdoing, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog, Fimbra, may well fail to materialise.· It's not known when the public flogging will be carried out.
a punishment in which someone is severely beaten with a whip or stick
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