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单词 flogging
释义

flog

verb

ˈfläg How to pronounce flog (audio)
flogged; flogging

transitive verb

1
a
: to beat with or as if with a rod or whip
The sailors were flogged for attempting a mutiny.
b
: to criticize harshly
He was flogged in the press for failing to take action.
2
: to force or urge into action : drive
3
a
chiefly British : to sell (something, such as stolen goods) illegally
flogged their employers' petrol to ordinary motorists Economist
b
: sell sense 7
traveled by horse, flogging encyclopedias Robert Darnton
flogging wares at the local discount outlet Ronald Henkoff
c
: to promote aggressively : plug
flying around the world flogging your movies Peter Bogdanovich
4
British : steal sense 1

intransitive verb

1
: flap, flutter
sails flogging
2
British : to move along with difficulty : slog
flogger noun

Synonyms

  • birch
  • cowhide
  • flagellate
  • flail
  • hide
  • horsewhip
  • lash
  • leather
  • rawhide
  • scourge
  • slash
  • switch
  • tan
  • thrash
  • whale
  • whip
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Example Sentences

The sailors were flogged for attempting a mutiny. a graphic depiction of a sailor being flogged by the captain for disobeying orders
Recent Examples on the Web While politicians flog the high prices of some new treatments such as gene and cancer immunotherapies, competition from generics is driving down prices for older drugs that more patients use. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2022 The idea is not to flog yourself for mistakes but to acknowledge them with future improvements in mind. New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021 Not to mention that the reconciliation process frequently results in the theatrics of the minority party using the Byrd rule to publicly flog the majority party’s policies. Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021 Is there any real difference between such magical thinking and the superstitions that led medieval peasants to flog themselves? Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021 Republicans used Lordstown to flog a Rust Belt revival. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 June 2021 Selling vehicles directly forges a bond with buyers that may help flog services in the future. The Economist, 11 Apr. 2021 Garuda is not the only Asian airline to flog its food to the land-lubbing public. The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020 And right on time the opponents of fossil fuels are flogging a sloppy study that ties pollutants to coronavirus deaths. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 May 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

perhaps modification of Latin flagellare to whip — more at flagellate

First Known Use

circa 1676, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a

Kids Definition

flog

verb

ˈfläg How to pronounce flog (audio)
flogged; flogging
: to beat severely with a rod or whip

flogging 1 of 2

noun

as in whipping

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • whipping
  • beating
  • thrashing
  • hammering
  • bashing
  • pummeling
  • bludgeoning
  • licking
  • smashing
  • battering
  • thumping
  • mauling
  • paddling
  • assault
  • pounding
  • clubbing
  • pummelling
  • attack
  • pelting
  • drubbing
  • walloping
  • socking
  • belting
  • buffeting
  • cudgelling
  • cudgeling
  • whaling
  • harm
  • battery
  • hurt
  • injury
  • lacing
  • batting
  • frenzy
  • detriment
  • threat
  • riot
  • revolt
  • impairment
  • pommelling
  • damage
  • terror
  • shock
  • onslaught
  • tromping
  • outrage
  • browbeating
  • pommeling
  • rampage
  • turbulence
  • brutality
  • upheaval
  • barbarity
  • paroxysm
  • fury
  • savagery
  • outbreak
  • bulldozing
  • rage
  • rupture
  • uproar
  • bullying
  • hectoring
  • mutilation
  • tumult
  • maiming
  • storm
  • crippling
  • violence
  • foul play
  • strong-arming
  • mayhem
  • force

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • pacifism
  • pacificism
  • nonviolence

flogging

2 of 2

verb

present participle of flog
1
as in hiding
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible a graphic depiction of a sailor being flogged by the captain for disobeying orders

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • whipping
  • hiding
  • slashing
  • lashing
  • slapping
  • spanking
  • scourging
  • thrashing
  • birching
  • flagellating
  • flicking
  • flailing
  • switching
  • cutting
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • tanning
  • licking
  • knocking
  • punching
  • smacking
  • whacking
  • leathering
  • banging
  • mauling
  • whaling
  • strapping
  • pounding
  • beating
  • caning
  • clipping
  • batting
  • thumping
  • rawhiding
  • cowhiding
  • clapping
  • swiping
  • swatting
  • cracking
  • thwacking
  • boxing
  • clubbing
  • bashing
  • cudgeling
  • pummeling
  • battering
  • knouting
  • pelting
  • hammering
  • smiting
  • clouting
  • quirting
  • bludgeoning
  • paddling
  • socking
  • clobbering
  • whupping
  • lamming
  • mangling
  • cudgelling
  • slugging
  • cuffing
  • pummelling
  • bopping
  • slogging
  • drubbing
  • walloping
  • touching up
  • busting
  • pasting
  • lambasting
  • roughing
  • bunging
  • buffeting
  • slating
  • pistol-whipping
  • blackjacking
  • lathering
  • belting
  • fustigating
  • fibbing
  • working over
  • whapping
  • threshing
  • whopping
  • lacing
  • belaboring
  • basting
  • pommelling
  • tromping
  • pommeling
2
as in lashing
to strike repeatedly was fined heavily for flogging a horse

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • lashing
  • licking
  • whipping
  • pounding
  • beating
  • slapping
  • hiding
  • spanking
  • doing
  • battering
  • pelting
  • hitting
  • attacking
  • knocking
  • punching
  • thumping
  • smashing
  • slamming
  • assaulting
  • mauling
  • bashing
  • pummeling
  • thrashing
  • chopping
  • hammering
  • whacking
  • bludgeoning
  • smacking
  • paddling
  • batting
  • birching
  • tanning
  • raiding
  • clubbing
  • pummelling
  • drubbing
  • slogging
  • switching
  • lambasting
  • storming
  • whupping
  • slating
  • buffeting
  • walloping
  • lathering
  • currying
  • boxing
  • belting
  • punching out
  • fibbing
  • whaling
  • whapping
  • working over
  • cracking
  • whopping
  • threshing
  • thwacking
  • lacing
  • belaboring
  • caning
  • swiping
  • basting
  • pommelling
  • scourging
  • beating up on
  • strapping
  • tromping
  • wounding
  • pommeling
  • flagellating
  • swatting
  • clobbering
  • socking
  • lamming
  • rushing
  • bunging up
  • cuffing
  • pasting
  • assailing
  • clouting
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • busting
  • mutilating
  • roughing (up)
  • leathering
  • messing (up)
  • horsewhipping
  • besetting
  • lacerating
  • maiming
  • whomping
  • whamming
  • laying on
  • mangling
  • pistol-whipping
  • goring
  • blackjacking
  • fustigating
  • descending (on or upon)
  • rawhiding
  • cowhiding
  • jumping (on)
  • pouncing (on or upon)
3
as in stomping
British to move heavily or clumsily for most of the night, searchers flogged through the marsh, crying out for the lost child

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • stomping
  • shuffling
  • stumbling
  • hauling
  • stamping
  • sloughing
  • dragging
  • weaving
  • barging
  • floundering
  • pounding
  • tramping
  • trudging
  • scuffing
  • scuffling
  • lurching
  • stumping
  • slogging
  • lumping
  • plodding
  • clumping
  • lumbering
  • shambling
  • staggering
  • galumphing
  • flopping
  • swaying
  • reeling
  • tromping
  • tottering
  • blundering
  • wobbling
  • doddering
  • wabbling
  • waddling
  • careening
  • teetering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sliding
  • hanging
  • gliding
  • coasting
  • whisking
  • floating
  • drifting
  • waltzing
  • hovering
  • wafting
  • breezing
  • poising
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4
as in struggling
British to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually ignoring the groans and catcalls that his speech was provoking, the backbencher flogged away

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • struggling
  • stumbling
  • floundering
  • trudging
  • shuffling
  • limping
  • blundering
  • jogging
  • lurching
  • plodding
  • swaying
  • faltering
  • fumbling
  • lumbering
  • reeling
  • staggering
  • tottering
  • bumbling
  • muddling
  • weltering
  • shambling
  • wallowing
  • teetering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sailing
  • flying
  • gliding
  • coasting
  • kilting
  • zooming
  • zipping
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