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单词 flailing
释义

flailing

adjective

flail·​ing ˈflā-liŋ How to pronounce flailing (audio)
1
: moving, swinging, or beating wildly like a flail
used especially of a person or a person's limbs
They dragged her toward cabin five, while the other campers made way to avoid her flailing feet. Rick RiordanVivid dreams made him lash out at me in his sleep with kicks and flailing arms. Jeremy Clarke… the crowd erupts and the mosh pit pushes flailing bodies towards the stage. Samantha O'Connor
2
a
: beset by difficulties : struggling
a flailing economy
… phoned a friend to vent about his flailing marriage … Sarah Grossbart
b
: clumsy or ineffectual
their flailing attempts/efforts to save the company
flailingly adverb
… was walking along the ledge of a precipitous dropoff when he slipped on a mossy rock and fell flailingly into the current … Jim Mustian

Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined at sense 1

flailing 1 of 2

noun

as in waving

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • waving
  • flapping
  • squirming
  • writhing
  • twitching
  • wriggling
  • fidgeting
  • fiddling
  • squirm
  • locomotion
  • mobility
  • shifting
  • motion
  • motility
  • stirring
  • dislocation
  • migration
  • relocation
  • motivity
  • movement
  • move
  • shift
  • stir

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • immobility
  • inertia
  • motionlessness
  • stop
  • stillness
  • halt
  • ending
  • cessation
  • expiration
  • termination
  • pause
  • lapse
  • finish
  • shutdown
  • stoppage
  • discontinuance
  • inertness
  • surcease
  • shutoff
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flailing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of flail
1
as in flapping
to move or cause to move with a striking motion started to flail his arms wildly when he spied a bat in the house

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • flapping
  • fluttering
  • flopping
  • waving
  • whipping
  • swinging
  • swaying
  • knocking
  • beating
  • banging
  • flicking
  • thumping
  • smacking
  • pounding
  • oscillating
  • fanning
  • flickering
  • battering
  • flitting
  • throbbing
  • undulating
  • spanking
  • pulsing
  • buffeting
  • palpitating
2
as in whipping
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible gruesome evidence that the prisoner had been flailed

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • whipping
  • slashing
  • hiding
  • thrashing
  • slapping
  • lashing
  • flicking
  • hitting
  • punching
  • knocking
  • switching
  • cutting
  • flagellating
  • flogging
  • smacking
  • banging
  • licking
  • whacking
  • pounding
  • scourging
  • spanking
  • clapping
  • mauling
  • whaling
  • tanning
  • horsewhipping
  • strapping
  • swiping
  • batting
  • leathering
  • thumping
  • birching
  • beating
  • clipping
  • rawhiding
  • cowhiding
  • swatting
  • pummeling
  • bashing
  • thwacking
  • pelting
  • cudgeling
  • bopping
  • clobbering
  • paddling
  • boxing
  • clubbing
  • clouting
  • slugging
  • bludgeoning
  • mangling
  • hammering
  • battering
  • smiting
  • quirting
  • cracking
  • lamming
  • knouting
  • pummelling
  • lambasting
  • caning
  • buffeting
  • socking
  • slogging
  • pasting
  • busting
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • touching up
  • lathering
  • whapping
  • tromping
  • belaboring
  • walloping
  • belting
  • drubbing
  • blackjacking
  • roughing
  • fustigating
  • whupping
  • pistol-whipping
  • slating
  • working over
  • threshing
  • fibbing
  • bunging
  • whopping
  • basting
  • lacing
  • pommelling
  • pommeling
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