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Whipping

noun

1.

Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment. Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, lashing, tanning.

2.

A sound defeat. Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping.

3.

A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally. Synonyms: whipstitch, whipstitching.

4.

The act of overcoming or outdoing. Synonym: beating.

adjective

1.

Smart and fashionable. Synonym: snappy. "Some sharp and whipping lines"

Whip

verb

(past & past part. whipped; pres. part. whipping)

1.

Beat severely with a whip or rod. Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt. "The children were severely trounced"

2.

Defeat thoroughly. Synonyms: mop up, pip, rack up, worst.

3.

Thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.

4.

Strike as if by whipping. Synonym: lash.

5.

Whip with or as if with a wire whisk. Synonym: whisk.

6.

Subject to harsh criticism. Synonyms: blister, scald. "The professor scaled the students" , "Your invectives scorched the community"

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"Whipping" Quotes from Famous Books

... lady did not fail to point out that he must undoubtedly inherit. His father, at Mrs. Newcome's instigation, certainly whipped Tommy for upsetting his little brothers in the go-cart; but upon being pressed to repeat the whipping for some other peccadillo performed soon after, Mr. Newcome refused at once, using a wicked, worldly expression, which well might shock any serious lady; saying, in fact, that he would be deed if he beat the boy any ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

... a temper he may have, when left with no one to talk to, and an opportunity to cool down, and with a knowledge that when he comes to the conclusion that he will do better he can be released, he leaves the cell feeling much different than the prisoner who leaves the whipping-post, after having received any number of lashes that a brutal officer may desire to inflict. One goes to his work cheerful, and determined to behave himself; the other dogged, revengeful, completely humiliated, ...

— The Twin Hells • John N. Reynolds

... You must have some whipping post, and he's as good as another. But he shilly-shallies about that girl. I hate all that stuff ...

— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

... been shrewdly suspected that the whipping-boy, who vicariously atoned for the sins of a prince of the blood—in other words, was thrashed, when he did wrong—was picked from the Children of the Chapel. Certainly Charles I. had such a whipping-boy named Murray; and judging from this instance the ...

— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell

... it was near a minute before any one knew what was became of me; for I thought it below me to cry out. But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. The dwarf, at my entreaty, had no other punishment than a sound whipping. ...

— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift

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