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Synonyms and Antonyms of flogs
- a graphic depiction of a sailor being flogged by the captain for disobeying orders
blackjacks, canes, clubs, cudgels, fustigates
bangs, bops, boxes, busts, claps, clips, clobbers, clouts, cracks, cuffs, hits, knocks, lams, pastes, punches, slaps, slugs, smacks, smites, socks, spanks, swats, swipes, thwacks, wallops, whacks
bashes, bastes, bats, batters, beats, belabors, belts, bludgeons, buffets, bungs, drubs, fibs [British], hammers, laces, lambastes (or lambasts), lathers, licks, mangles, mauls, paddles, pelts, pommels, pounds, pummels, roughs, slates, slogs, threshes, thumps, tromps, whops (or whaps), whups, works over
- was fined heavily for flogging a horse
bashes, bastes, bats, batters, beats, belabors, belts, birches, bludgeons, buffets, bungs up, clubs, curries, does, drubs, fibs [British], hammers, hides, laces, lambastes (or lambasts), lashes, lathers, licks, mauls, messes (up), paddles, pelts, pommels, pounds, pummels, punches out, roughs (up), slates, slogs, switches, tans, thrashes, threshes, thumps, tromps, wallops, whales, whips, whops (or whaps), whups, works over
assails, assaults, attacks, besets, boxes, busts, chops, clobbers, clouts, cracks, cudgels, cuffs, descends (on or upon), hits, jumps (on), knocks, lams, lays on, pastes, pounces (on or upon), punches, raids, rushes, slams, slaps, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, storms, swats, swipes, thwacks, whacks, whams, whomps
blackjacks, canes, cowhides, flagellates, fustigates, horsewhips, leathers, pistol-whips, rawhides, scourges, straps
- 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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