nnoun.actbeating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishmentSynset:flagellation lashing tanning whipping
Derivationally Related Form:flagellateflogwhip
Hypernyms:beating drubbing lacing licking thrashing trouncing whacking
Inherited Hypernyms:whippingbeatingcorporal punishmentpunishmentsocial controlgroup actionacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
Inherited Hypernyms:whippingbeatingcorporal punishmentpunishmentsocial controlgroup actioneventpsychological featureabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:horsewhippingself-flagellation
Full Hyponyms:horsewhippingself-flagellation
vverb.contactbeat severely with a whip or rodSynset:flog lash lather slash strap trounce welt whip
Examples:- The teacher often flogged the students
- The children were severely trounced
Derivationally Related Form:trouncingwhipwhippingstraplashwhipperfloggingwelt
Hypernyms:beat beat up work over
Inherited Hypernyms:flogbeat
Direct Hyponyms:birchcatcowhideflagellatehorsewhipleatherscourgeswitch
Full Troponyms:birchcatcowhideflagellatehorsewhipleatherswitch
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody | They want to --- the prisoners (apply to: whip, trounce, strap, lash, slash, lather, welt, flog)
vverb.contactbeat with a caneSynset:cane flog lambast lambaste
Derivationally Related Form:floggingcane
Hypernyms:beat beat up work over
Inherited Hypernyms:canebeat
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | They want to --- the prisoners (apply to: lambaste, cane, lambast, flog)