Synonyms of flogging

flogging 1 of 2

noun

as in whipping

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• thrashing
• beating
• hammering
• bashing
• pummeling
• assault
• smashing
• licking
• thumping
• paddling
• pounding
• attack
• battering
• mauling
• clubbing
• pummelling
• drubbing
• belting
• pelting
• whaling
• buffeting
• battery
• bludgeoning
• harm
• cudgelling
• injury
• batting
• lacing
• impairment
• cudgeling
• hurt
• detriment
• threat
• walloping
• revolt
• frenzy
• riot
• damage
• socking
• shock
• onslaught
• pommelling
• 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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• 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
• banging
• birching
• whaling
• leathering
• whacking
• horsewhipping
• pounding
• mauling
• strapping
• clipping
• batting
• beating
• caning
• rawhiding
• swiping
• cowhiding
• thumping
• clapping
• swatting
• boxing
• cudgelling
• clubbing
• cracking
• cudgeling
• battering
• pelting
• bashing
• thwacking
• pummelling
• pummeling
• smiting
• knouting
• hammering
• quirting
• socking
• paddling
• clouting
• bludgeoning
• clobbering
• slugging
• touching up
• cuffing
• mangling
• pasting
• bopping
• roughing
• walloping
• slogging
• busting
• buffeting
• lambasting
• slating
• lathering
• drubbing
• pistol-whipping
• working over
• belting
• blackjacking
• whopping
• bunging
• fustigating
• fibbing
• whapping
• threshing
• whupping
• lamming
• lacing
• belaboring
• basting
• pommelling
• 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
• doing
• battering
• spanking
• pelting
• hitting
• attacking
• knocking
• punching
• thumping
• smashing
• slamming
• assaulting
• mauling
• pummelling
• bashing
• chopping
• pummeling
• batting
• hammering
• thrashing
• bludgeoning
• paddling
• smacking
• raiding
• whacking
• clubbing
• tanning
• slogging
• switching
• buffeting
• slating
• lambasting
• currying
• drubbing
• lathering
• storming
• boxing
• birching
• working over
• punching out
• walloping
• belting
• whopping
• fibbing
• whapping
• whupping
• whaling
• threshing
• lacing
• belaboring
• basting
• cracking
• roughing (up)
• messing (up)
• pommelling
• swiping
• wounding
• tromping
• pommeling
• strapping
• thwacking
• swatting
• caning
• cudgelling
• rushing
• clouting
• bunging up
• beating up on
• scourging
• cudgeling
• clobbering
• socking
• pasting
• flagellating
• cuffing
• assailing
• descending (on or upon)
• jumping (on)
• 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
• wabbling
• 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