flogged

I don't think they need to be flogged and analyse things to death.

Then again, the last two times England have been flogged for more than 500, they have been victorious.

Gannett should be forced to sell off most of its newspapers and at the same time be brought into the public square and flogged for pretending to publish journalism.

"We came back from Italy having flogged ourselves to pieces, nervous wrecks, and people say 'where were you on D-Day?'" said Matt, from Penrith, Cumbria.

But the Big Lie persists because he has relentlessly flogged it virtually every day since then.