flogging
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ
Noun
flogging (countable and uncountable, plural floggings)
- Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
- Synonyms: whipping, flagellation, scourging
- What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.
- 1991, Alan Wood, The History of Siberia: from Russian conquest to revolution:
- However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.
Derived terms
Translations
infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping
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Verb
flogging
- present participle and gerund of flog
See also
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