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Flagellate   /flˈædʒəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Flagellate

adjective
1.
Having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum).  Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike.



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dinoflagellate
plantlike flagellate
zooflagellate


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"Flagellate" Quotes from Famous Books



... hit hard. Justly. Not you. Our deeds are the hard hitters. We learn when they begin to flagellate, stroke upon stroke! Suppose we hold a costly thing in the hand and dash it to the ground—no recovery of it, none! That must be what your father meant. I can't regret you are a mother. We have a son, a bond. How can I ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... you ever give orders, except, perhaps, to flagellate either your own skin, or that of others?—But about government.—Bah! allow me to observe that you have been a long time finding out that you rank seventh ...
— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas


Words linked to "Flagellate" :   protozoan, lather, Costia necatrix, costia, protozoon, trounce, Leishmania, Flagellata, polymastigote, class Flagellata, flog, scourge, Mastigophora, flagellum, hypermastigote, lash, flagellant, class Mastigophora, zoomastigote, giardia, trichomonad, welt, slash, flagellation, genus Leishmania, whip, strap, flagellate protozoan


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