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flagellate
[v. flaj-uh-leyt; adj., n. flaj-uh-lit, -leyt] 
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flagellate
[v. flaj-uh-leyt; adj., n. flaj-uh-lit, -leyt]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | whip, lash |
| Synonyms: | beat, beat the living daylights out of, belt, flay, flog, hit, lash, spank, tan someone's hide, tan*, thrash |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flog |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | whip, lash |
| Synonyms: | beat, belt, cane, castigate, chastise, ferule, flagellate, flax, flay, give the cat o'nine tails, hide, hit, larrup, lather, leather, paddle, scourge, spank, strike, stripe, tan one's hide, thrash, trounce, wax, whack, whale, whomp, whop |
| Main Entry: | lash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat, whip |
| Synonyms: | baste, batter, buffet, chastise, dash, drum, flagellate, flay, flog, hammer, hide, hit, horsewhip, knock, lam, lather, pound, pummel, scourge, smack, strap, strike, thrash, wear out, whale |
| Main Entry: | maul |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mangle, abuse |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, bludgeon, break face, buffet, claw, clean, drub, flagellate, flail, handle roughly, hit, hurt, ill-treat, knock about, knock around, lacerate, lash, lean on, let have it, maltreat, molest, mug, muscle, paste, paw, pelt, pound, pummel, put in the hospital, rough up, skin, take care of, thrash, trample, wax, whip, work over |
| Antonyms: | guard, maintain, protect, take care |
| Main Entry: | thrash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flail about; beat |
| Synonyms: | batter, beat up, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, bury, cane, chasten, chastise, clobber, crush, defeat, flagellate, flog, jerk, kill, lambaste*, lick, maul, murder, overwhelm, paste, pelt, pitch, pound, pummel, punish, rout, rush, scourge, seesaw, slaughter, spank, stir, strike, surge, tan, tan one's hide, thresh, toss, toss and turn, trash, trim, trounce, wallop, wax, whip, work over, writhe |
| Notes: | trash means to beat, defeat, or move violently; thresh means to separate seeds of grain from husks by beating |
| Antonyms: | be still |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit repeatedly |
| Synonyms: | bash, beat, birch, bludgeon, cane, castigate, chastise, cudgel, drub, ferule, flagellate, flog, hide, larrup, lash, lather, punish, scourge, spank, strap, strike, switch, tan, thrash, trash, wallop, whale, whomp |
| Main Entry: | protozoan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | minute organism |
| Synonyms: | ameba, amoeba, cell, ciliate, euglena, flagellate, organism, paramecium, plasmodium, sporozoan, stentor |
| Main Entry: | thresh |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat |
| Synonyms: | assail, assault, bang*, bash*, baste, bat, batter, belabor, belt, box*, break*, bruise, buffet, cane, castigate, clout*, club*, collide, crush, cudgel, drub, flagellate, flail, flog, hammer, hit*, knock*, lambaste*, lash, lick*, maltreat, mash, maul, pelt, pound, pummel, punch*, punish, rain blows on, ram, rap, slap, slug, smack*, smash, spank, strike, swat, thrash, thump, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thresh |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | thrash |
| Synonyms: | batter, beat up, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, bury, cane, chasten, chastise, clobber, crush, defeat, flagellate, flail, flog, jerk*, kill*, lambaste*, lick*, maul, murder, overwhelm, paste, pelt, pitch, pound, pummel, punish, rout, rush, scourge, seesaw, slaughter, spank, stir*, strike, surge, tan, tan one's hide, toss, toss and turn, trash*, trim, trounce, wallop, wax, whip, work over, writhe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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