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单词 fustigating
释义

fustigate

verb

fus·​ti·​gate ˈfə-stə-ˌgāt How to pronounce fustigate (audio)
fustigated; fustigating

transitive verb

1
: cudgel
2
: to criticize severely
fustigation
ˌfə-stə-ˈgā-shən How to pronounce fustigate (audio)
noun

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Though it won't leave a bump on your head, severe criticism can be a blow to your self-esteem. It's no wonder that fustigate, when it first appeared in the 17th century, originally meant "to cudgel or beat with a short heavy stick," a sense that reflects the word's derivation from the Latin noun fustis, which means "club" or "staff." The "criticize" sense is more common these days, but the violent use of fustigate was a hit with earlier writers like George Huddesford, who in 1801 told of an angry Jove who "cudgell'd all the constellations, ... / Swore he'd eject the man i' the moon ... / And fustigate him round his orbit."

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin fustigatus, past participle of fustigare, from Latin fustis + -igare (as in fumigare to fumigate)

First Known Use

circa 1661, in the meaning defined at sense 1

fustigating

verb

present participle of fustigate
as in lamming

Synonyms & Similar Words

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