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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

... handsome face betrayed small concern in these indications. Whether he was conscious of any predisposing cause was another question. "I reckon they're after somebody," he reflected; "likely it's me." He returned to his pocket the handkerchief with which he had been whipping away the red dust of Poker Flat from his neat boots, and quietly discharged his ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

... Senators, having failed to amend the Direct Primary bill on its second reading, apparently accepted their whipping, and allowed the measure to go through third reading and ...

— Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 • Franklin Hichborn

... a neighbouring house, rushed towards Sidi Hassan, and delivered on the bridge of that hero's nose a blow that instantly laid him flat on the ground. At the same moment he was seized by a dozen guards, thrown down, bound, and carried off to the whipping-house, where he was bastinadoed until he felt as if bones and flesh, were one mass of tingling jelly. In this state, almost incapable of standing or walking, he was carried to the Bagnio, and thrown ...

— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne

... wheeling shadows beside them on the road, and driven by girls in light gowns and wide hats or by grooms in livery. Presently one very smart, high English cart stopped, and Mr. Kenneth Saunders got down from it, and stood whipping his riding-boot with his crap and chatting with the young woman who had driven him home. Susan thought him a very attractive young man, with his quiet, almost melancholy expression, and his air of knowing exactly the correct ...

— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... be out of reach of them all. Oh, how could she endure it! Patty scolded sometimes, and Madam Wetherill reproved and had on an occasion or two sent her out of the room, but to be threatened with a whipping ...

— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas

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