Synonyms of flogged

flogged

verb

past tense of flog

1

as in whipped

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible

a graphic depiction of a sailor being flogged by the captain for disobeying orders

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipped
• slashed
• lashed
• scourged
• slapped
• thrashed
• spanked
• flicked
• horsewhipped
• flailed
• flagellated
• switched
• cut
• hit
• hided
• knocked
• licked
• punched
• birched
• tanned
• banged
• smacked
• mauled
• pounded
• whacked
• leathered
• strapped
• caned
• whaled
• batted
• clipped
• clapped
• swiped
• thumped
• beat
• cowhided
• rawhided
• clubbed
• swatted
• boxed
• bashed
• pelted
• pummeled
• battered
• bludgeoned
• cracked
• touched up
• cuffed
• clobbered
• hammered
• buffeted
• socked
• paddled
• knouted
• slugged
• smote
• pasted
• mangled
• bopped
• quirted
• roughed
• busted
• whupped
• lathered
• thwacked
• clouted
• lambasted
• bunged
• slated
• walloped
• threshed
• worked over
• laced
• slogged
• basted
• lammed
• pistol-whipped
• cudgeled
• belabored
• tromped
• belted
• fustigated
• drubbed
• blackjacked
• fibbed
• whopped
• pommeled

2

as in lashed

to strike repeatedly

was fined heavily for flogging a horse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lashed
• licked
• pounded
• whipped
• slapped
• spanked
• battered
• attacked
• beat
• pelted
• thumped
• knocked
• assaulted
• punched
• hit
• smashed
• slammed
• mauled
• did
• bashed
• thrashed
• pummeled
• chopped
• bludgeoned
• hided
• batted
• hammered
• buffeted
• clubbed
• smacked
• paddled
• whacked
• lathered
• lambasted
• raided
• birched
• slated
• threshed
• tanned
• punched out
• worked over
• boxed
• switched
• walloped
• whupped
• laced
• slogged
• basted
• curried
• belabored
• tromped
• wounded
• belted
• swiped
• drubbed
• stormed
• fibbed
• whopped
• roughed (up)
• messed (up)
• whaled
• cracked
• caned
• scourged
• swatted
• strapped
• rushed
• clobbered
• cuffed
• assailed
• pasted
• pommeled
• beat up on
• horsewhipped
• socked
• laid on
• bunged up
• descended (on or upon)
• thwacked
• clouted
• busted
• flagellated
• jumped (on)
• beset
• mutilated
• pounced (on or upon)
• lammed
• whomped
• gored
• whammed
• lacerated
• leathered
• maimed
• mangled
• cudgeled
• pistol-whipped
• fustigated
• blackjacked
• cowhided
• rawhided

3

as in stomped

British to move heavily or clumsily

for most of the night, searchers flogged through the marsh, crying out for the lost child

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stomped
• shuffled
• stumbled
• hauled
• barged
• stamped
• dragged
• weaved
• pounded
• lumped
• lurched
• tramped
• trudged
• sloughed
• scuffed
• floundered
• clumped
• shambled
• stumped
• scuffled
• staggered
• lumbered
• plodded
• slogged
• galumphed
• flopped
• tromped
• swayed
• reeled
• blundered
• tottered
• waddled
• doddered
• careened
• wobbled
• teetered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slid
• glided
• hung
• whisked
• floated
• drifted
• waltzed
• hovered
• poised
• coasted
• wafted
• breezed

4

as in struggled

British to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

ignoring the groans and catcalls that his speech was provoking, the backbencher flogged away

Synonyms & Similar Words

• struggled
• stumbled
• blundered
• shuffled
• trudged
• floundered
• limped
• lurched
• fumbled
• lumbered
• plodded
• jogged
• swayed
• reeled
• faltered
• staggered
• bumbled
• wallowed
• shambled
• tottered
• weltered
• muddled
• teetered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sailed
• flew
• glided
• zipped
• zoomed
• coasted
• kilted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of flogged

The same day that the nanny allegedly beat Walter, other caregivers slapped and flogged his siblings, including with shoes and wooden sticks. — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 11 May 2026

The media flagged and flogged it for AI incompetence. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026

To be publicly flogged for how much Pa permitted us to do — that felt grossly unfair. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025

There are traditional Finnish saunas (dry heat/steam), infrared saunas (radiant heat), Turkish baths/hammams (can include a venik ritual where guests are flogged with branches) and Russian banyas (high-humidity steam). — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025