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whipping

noun as in beating

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Betterland will be Perfect Day’s debut on the dairy aisle, delivering the same cooking, whipping, steaming, frothing, and baking functionality as conventional milk, with none of the lactose, cholesterol, or methane of the original.

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The move was a serious demonstration against what the children deemed overzealous corporal punishment that came in the shape of beatings and whippings.

Judges in North Carolina circumvented the law by declaring that anyone convicted of a crime for which public whipping was the penalty could be denied the right to vote.

Many enslaved people spent the holidays worrying about getting sold or faced violence like whippings.

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In addition, the department’s use-of-force policy includes a detailed list of prohibited actions, such as neck holds, warning shots, shooting at moving vehicles and pistol whipping.

Read on to find out what you need to know before whipping up bug-infused banana bread.

Audience participation is allowed, including a bit of light whipping from time to time.

But then, blessedly, the next scene has them whipping out their dongs and painting with them.

The band manages one encore, “Whipping Post,” but halfway through the number the audience is busily streaming toward the exits.

I want to discuss the whipping sequence, because it destroyed me.

He was almost certain that he saw a black silk cape whipping out from the shoulders of the lone man in the car.

And Isabel dropped her head into her arms and burst into a wild tempest of tears, like a child that has had its first whipping.

Whipping the long, keen blade from its sheath, Marius bore down upon the rash meddler.

Although the whipping-post and stocks used to be common things in English towns, we saw them preserved only at Bottisford.

All around Palermo spread the tents, bright pavilions of silk with broad pennons above, whipping the slow south wind.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whipping, such as: flogging, licking, pounding, spanking, thrashing, and trouncing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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