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Synonyms and Antonyms of flogging
- a graphic depiction of a sailor being flogged by the captain for disobeying orders
blackjacking, caning, clubbing, cudgeling (or cudgelling), fustigating
banging, bopping, boxing, busting, clapping, clipping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cuffing, hitting, knocking, lamming, pasting, punching, slapping, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, spanking, swatting, swiping, thwacking, walloping, whacking
bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging, drubbing, fibbing [British], hammering, lacing, lambasting, lathering, licking, mangling, mauling, paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), roughing, slating, slogging, threshing, thumping, tromping, whopping (or whapping), whupping, working over
- was fined heavily for flogging a horse
bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, birching, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging up, clubbing, currying, doing, drubbing, fibbing [British], hammering, hiding, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mauling, messing (up), paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), punching out, roughing (up), slating, slogging, switching, tanning, thrashing, threshing, thumping, tromping, walloping, whaling, whipping, whopping (or whapping), whupping, working over
assailing, assaulting, attacking, besetting, boxing, busting, chopping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cudgeling (or cudgelling), cuffing, descending (on or upon), hitting, jumping (on), knocking, lamming, laying on, pasting, pouncing (on or upon), punching, raiding, rushing, slamming, slapping, smacking, smashing, socking, spanking, storming, swatting, swiping, thwacking, whacking, whamming, whomping
blackjacking, caning, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping, leathering, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, strapping
- for most of the night, searchers flogged through the marsh, crying out for the lost child
- ignoring the groans and catcalls that his speech was provoking, the backbencher flogged away
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