English > flog: 2 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | Beat severely with a whip or rod. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | They want to flog the prisoners |
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| Example | "The teacher often flogged the students" |
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| Synonyms | welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce |
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| Narrower | birch | Whip with a birch twig |
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| cat | Beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails |
| cowhide | flog with a cowhide |
| flagellate, scourge | Whip |
| horsewhip | Whip with a whip intended for horses |
| leather | Whip with a leather strap |
| switch | flog with or as if with a flexible rod |
| Broader | beat, beat up, work over | Give a beating to |
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| Spanish | azotar, flagelar, fustigar |
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| Catalan | assotar, fuetejar, fustigar |
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| Nouns | flogging | beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment |
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