Synonyms of flogs

flogs

verb

present tense third-person singular of flog

1

as in whips

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

• whips
• hides
• slashes
• slaps
• thrashes
• spanks
• flicks
• flails
• switches
• lashes
• knocks
• hits
• flagellates
• smacks
• licks
• scourges
• cuts
• leathers
• tans
• mauls
• whacks
• horsewhips
• punches
• whales
• pounds
• clips
• bangs
• straps
• beats
• bats
• swipes
• claps
• thumps
• birches
• cowhides
• swats
• rawhides
• boxes
• canes
• quirts
• smites
• pummels
• bashes
• clubs
• clobbers
• thwacks
• socks
• bludgeons
• touches up
• mangles
• clouts
• lambastes
• pelts
• cudgels
• knouts
• threshes
• paddles
• wallops
• bops
• cracks
• hammers
• pastes
• belts
• bastes
• cuffs
• lams
• slogs
• works over
• slugs
• lathers
• slates
• busts
• belabors
• batters
• roughs
• laces
• fustigates
• buffets
• tromps
• whups
• drubs
• fibs
• blackjacks
• pistol-whips
• whops
• pommels
• bungs

2

as in licks

to strike repeatedly

was fined heavily for flogging a horse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licks
• whips
• hides
• pounds
• lashes
• slaps
• beats
• spanks
• thumps
• knocks
• does
• slams
• hits
• pelts
• smashes
• mauls
• pummels
• attacks
• assaults
• thrashes
• batters
• bashes
• punches
• bludgeons
• smacks
• lambastes
• bats
• threshes
• whacks
• chops
• paddles
• hammers
• bastes
• wallops
• belts
• switches
• clubs
• boxes
• drubs
• slogs
• works over
• lathers
• raids
• slates
• tans
• belabors
• laces
• punches out
• buffets
• tromps
• curries
• whups
• swipes
• fibs
• roughs (up)
• swats
• storms
• whales
• assails
• whops
• wounds
• messes (up)
• beats up on
• rushes
• clobbers
• pommels
• thwacks
• clouts
• birches
• cracks
• socks
• pastes
• besets
• straps
• descends (on or upon)
• whams
• bungs up
• lams
• cuffs
• jumps (on)
• lays on
• cudgels
• canes
• lacerates
• flagellates
• mutilates
• scourges
• busts
• leathers
• mangles
• maims
• whomps
• horsewhips
• pounces (on or upon)
• gores
• fustigates
• pistol-whips
• blackjacks
• cowhides
• rawhides

3

as in shuffles

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

• shuffles
• stomps
• stumbles
• barges
• hauls
• lurches
• flounders
• weaves
• clumps
• drags
• trudges
• sloughs
• stamps
• lumps
• stumps
• shambles
• tramps
• plods
• lumbers
• pounds
• scuffs
• staggers
• slogs
• sways
• galumphs
• flops
• scuffles
• tromps
• waddles
• totters
• reels
• teeters
• careens
• wobbles
• blunders
• dodders

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slides
• glides
• waltzes
• whisks
• hangs
• floats
• hovers
• drifts
• wafts
• poises
• breezes
• coasts

4

as in stumbles

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

• stumbles
• struggles
• shuffles
• flounders
• trudges
• limps
• lurches
• plods
• blunders
• jogs
• lumbers
• sways
• fumbles
• falters
• staggers
• wallows
• bumbles
• reels
• totters
• shambles
• teeters
• muddles
• welters

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• flies
• sails
• glides
• zooms
• zips
• coasts
• kilts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of flogs

Now adults, after a childhood marred with tragedy, Guin flogs a memoir only tangentially related to the truth, and Ennis stages a new art exhibit, despite what happened at the last one. — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026