Synonyms of flogging

flogging 1 of 2

noun

as in whipping

Related Words

• whipping
• thrashing
• beating
• hammering
• bashing
• pummeling
• assault
• smashing
• licking
• thumping
• paddling
• pounding
• attack
• battering
• mauling
• clubbing
• drubbing
• belting
• pelting
• whaling
• buffeting
• battery
• bludgeoning
• harm
• injury
• batting
• lacing
• impairment
• cudgeling
• hurt
• detriment
• threat
• walloping
• revolt
• frenzy
• riot
• damage
• socking
• shock
• onslaught
• terror
• outrage
• turbulence
• tromping
• rampage
• upheaval
• pommeling
• outbreak
• paroxysm
• brutality
• fury
• rupture
• barbarity
• savagery
• rage
• uproar
• tumult
• bullying
• bulldozing
• browbeating
• storm
• mutilation
• maiming
• violence
• crippling
• foul play
• hectoring
• strong-arming
• mayhem
• force

Dissimilar Words

• pacifism
• nonviolence
• pacificism

flogging

2 of 2

verb

present participle of flog

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• hiding
• slashing
• lashing
• slapping
• spanking
• flicking
• scourging
• switching
• thrashing
• flagellating
• flailing
• hitting
• cutting
• tanning
• licking
• knocking
• punching
• smacking
• birching
• banging
• leathering
• whaling
• horsewhipping
• whacking
• pounding
• mauling
• strapping
• clipping
• batting
• beating
• caning
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• swiping
• thumping
• clapping
• swatting
• boxing
• clubbing
• cracking
• cudgeling
• battering
• pelting
• bashing
• thwacking
• pummeling
• smiting
• knouting
• quirting
• hammering
• socking
• paddling
• clouting
• bludgeoning
• clobbering
• slugging
• touching up
• cuffing
• mangling
• pasting
• bopping
• roughing
• walloping
• slogging
• buffeting
• busting
• lambasting
• slating
• lathering
• pistol-whipping
• drubbing
• working over
• belting
• blackjacking
• whopping
• bunging
• fustigating
• fibbing
• whupping
• threshing
• lamming
• lacing
• belaboring
• basting
• tromping
• pommeling

2

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

was fined heavily for flogging a horse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licking
• lashing
• whipping
• pounding
• hiding
• beating
• slapping
• battering
• spanking
• doing
• pelting
• hitting
• attacking
• knocking
• thumping
• punching
• assaulting
• smashing
• slamming
• mauling
• pummeling
• bashing
• batting
• chopping
• hammering
• thrashing
• bludgeoning
• paddling
• smacking
• raiding
• whacking
• clubbing
• tanning
• slogging
• switching
• buffeting
• slating
• lambasting
• drubbing
• currying
• lathering
• storming
• birching
• boxing
• working over
• punching out
• walloping
• belting
• whopping
• fibbing
• whupping
• whaling
• threshing
• lacing
• belaboring
• basting
• roughing (up)
• messing (up)
• cracking
• swiping
• wounding
• tromping
• pommeling
• strapping
• thwacking
• swatting
• caning
• rushing
• bunging up
• beating up on
• scourging
• cudgeling
• clobbering
• socking
• flagellating
• pasting
• cuffing
• assailing
• descending (on or upon)
• jumping (on)
• clouting
• besetting
• busting
• laying on
• mutilating
• lacerating
• pouncing (on or upon)
• whomping
• lamming
• whamming
• leathering
• horsewhipping
• maiming
• pistol-whipping
• mangling
• goring
• blackjacking
• fustigating
• rawhiding
• cowhiding

3

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffling
• stomping
• stumbling
• hauling
• sloughing
• stamping
• barging
• weaving
• pounding
• dragging
• floundering
• trudging
• lurching
• tramping
• lumping
• scuffing
• scuffling
• stumping
• shambling
• clumping
• slogging
• plodding
• staggering
• lumbering
• galumphing
• swaying
• flopping
• reeling
• tottering
• tromping
• blundering
• waddling
• wobbling
• careening
• teetering
• doddering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sliding
• gliding
• coasting
• hanging
• whisking
• floating
• drifting
• waltzing
• hovering
• breezing
• wafting
• poising

4

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• struggling
• stumbling
• floundering
• shuffling
• trudging
• limping
• blundering
• plodding
• lurching
• fumbling
• jogging
• lumbering
• swaying
• bumbling
• reeling
• faltering
• shambling
• staggering
• tottering
• wallowing
• muddling
• weltering
• teetering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• flying
• sailing
• gliding
• coasting
• zooming
• zipping
• kilting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of flogging

Noun

In October 2008, Greenspan underwent an hourslong public flogging on Capitol Hill from lawmakers who once hung on every word the former Fed chairman had to say. — Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA Today, 22 June 2026

Aikens has a modest staff, including a host and a house dom, a professional dominant who performs demonstrations such as flogging and wax play for the 30-and-over crowd. — Victoria M. Walker, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 May 2026

None of that requires punishing him with a public flogging. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026

In September 1850, Congress banned flogging on all US ships. — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026

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

So, that is one gig at a completely unnecessary addition to the sports calendar, created by corporate interests for the sole intention of flogging products to people who do not really like sport… and another at the Enhanced Games. — Matt Slater, New York Times, 23 May 2026

In an even more meta moment, Amazon interrupted its own Upfront with actual ads with Summer House star Paige DeSorbo flogging certain items to an increasingly frustrated audience. — Peter White, Deadline, 11 May 2026

White-Jacket did cause a stir with its discussion of the arbitrary and cruel use of flogging in the US Navy. — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026

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 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