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| Main Entry: | flagellate |
| 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
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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maul |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mangle, abuse |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, bludgeon, buffet, claw, clean, drub, flagellate, flail, hit, hurt, knock about*, lacerate, lash, maltreat, molest, mug, muscle, paste*, paw, pelt, pound, pummel, rough up, skin, thrash, trample, wax, whip, break face, handle roughly, ill-treat, knock around, lean on, let have it, put in the hospital, take care of, work over |
| Antonyms: | guard, maintain, protect, take care |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure by striking |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, bat, batter, 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, ram, rap, slap, slug, smack, spank, strike, swat, thrash, thump, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale*, whip, thresh |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, guard, help, protect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat, whip |
| Synonyms: | baste, batter, buffet, chastise, dash, drum, flagellate, flay, flog, hammer, hide, hit, knock, lather, pound, pummel, scourge, smack, strap, strike, thrash, wear out, whale*, horsewhip, lam |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit repeatedly |
| Synonyms: | bash, beat, bludgeon, cane, castigate, chastise, cudgel, drub, flagellate, flog, hide, lash, lather*, punish, scourge, spank, strap, strike, switch, tan, thrash, trash, wallop, whale, birch, ferule, larrup*, whomp |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | botany |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
acervate, acinaceous, barbate, botanical, carpogenous, dealbate, fasciate, flagellate, glaucous, imberbe, phyllogenetic, pullulant, soboliferous
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