FLOGGING Synonyms: 224 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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as in whipping

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verb

present participle of flog

as in hiding

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible a graphic depiction of a sailor being flogged by the captain for disobeying orders

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as in licking

to strike repeatedly was fined heavily for flogging a horse

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as in shuffling

British to move heavily or clumsily for most of the night, searchers flogged through the marsh, crying out for the lost child

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as in struggling

British to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually ignoring the groans and catcalls that his speech was provoking, the backbencher flogged away

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Recent Examples of flogging

Noun

Cheating has been part of the Olympics since the ancient games, when violators were punished with fines, public flogging or lifetime bans. —

Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026 Despite a pretty lively premiere week thanks to a public flogging from critics that seemed to pique audience interest, All’s Fair did have some tough competition during that interval as well. —

Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025

Verb

Examples include a husband having the legal right to restrict his wife’s travel and employment, unequal divorce rights and punishment for appearing in public without a hijab ranging from fines to prison time to flogging. —

Ellie Austin, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026 Others have called out the boring marketing campaign based around flogging variants in order for Swift to finally beat the record for the biggest opening sales week for a female artist in history (currently held by Adele, which she is likely projected to break). —

Bianca Davino, Refinery29, 7 Oct. 2025 The only thing tougher to watch than the Bengals’ offense on Sunday was Browning flogging himself over the failure. —

Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025 The Black Death and its aftermath saw a great resurgence of apocalyptic flagellation, with thousands of adherents flogging themselves up and down the Continent (the movement failed to take off in England, which figures). —

Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flogging

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The hair-whipping, chest-thumping church founder uprooted her polarizing sect from Manchester, England, to Manhattan before fleeing farther still into the countryside.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
In 1918, then-owner Philip Guichet invented the Grasshopper cocktail, incorporating white and green crème de menthe, white and dark crème de cacao, heavy whipping cream and brandy.

— Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026