Flog \Flog\ (fl[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flogged (fl[o^]gd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Flogging (-g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Scot. fleg blow,
stroke, kick, AS. flocan to strike, or perh. fr. L.
flagellare to whip. Cf. Flagellate.]
To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to
chastise with repeated blows.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flog
v 1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
[syn: welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap,
trounce]
2: beat with a cane [syn: cane, lambaste, lambast]
[also: flogging, flogged]
WordNet (r) 2.0
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "flog":
baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane,
castigate, chastise, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate,
flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, goad,
hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, needle,
nudge, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, promote, publicize,
pummel, punish, rawhide, scourge, sell, smite, spank, spur, sting,
strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce,
truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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