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TAKE THE QUIZSynonyms of birching
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as in whipping
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible
students at the private school were once routinely birched for violating the rules
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as in licking
to strike repeatedly
always a stern disciplinarian, our father birched anyone who talked back
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“Birching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birching. Accessed 1 Apr. 2023.
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