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past tense of flail
Synonyms of flailed
1
to move or cause to move with a striking motion
- started to flail his arms wildly when he spied a bat in the house
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2
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible
- gruesome evidence that the prisoner had been flailed
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Words Related to flailed
- blackjacked,
- caned,
- clubbed,
- cudgeled
- (or cudgelled),
- fustigated
- banged,
- bopped,
- boxed,
- busted
- (also bust),
- clapped
- (also clapt),
- clipped,
- clobbered,
- clouted,
- cracked,
- cuffed,
- hit,
- knocked,
- lammed,
- pasted,
- punched,
- slapped,
- slugged,
- smacked,
- smote,
- socked,
- spanked,
- swatted,
- swiped,
- thwacked,
- walloped,
- whacked
- bashed,
- basted,
- batted,
- battered,
- beat,
- belabored,
- belted,
- bludgeoned,
- buffeted,
- bunged,
- drubbed,
- fibbed
- [British],
- hammered,
- laced,
- lambasted,
- lathered,
- licked,
- mangled,
- mauled,
- paddled,
- pelted,
- pommeled
- (or pommelled),
- pounded,
- pummeled
- (also pummelled),
- roughed,
- slated,
- slogged,
- threshed,
- thumped,
- tromped,
- whopped
- (or whapped),
- whupped,
- worked over
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