flogging

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English

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flogging

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

Florentine flogging

Translations

infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping

Albanian: fshikullim (sq) m
Armenian: ծեծ (hy) (cec)
Old Armenian: գան (gan)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鞭打 (zh) (biāndǎ)
Finnish: ruoskinta
French: flagellation (fr) f
Georgian: გამათრახება (gamatraxeba), გაწკეპლვა (gac̣ḳeṗlva), გაროზგვა (garozgva), ფლაგელაცია (plagelacia)
German: Auspeitschung (de) f
Hungarian: ostorozás (hu), korbácsolás (hu), vesszőzés, megostorozás, megkorbácsolás (hu), megvesszőzés
Italian: fustigazione (it) f, flagellazione (it) f
Japanese: 鞭打ち (ja) (むちうち, muchiuchi)
Norman: chîngneuse f
Polish: chłosta (pl) f
Portuguese: açoitamento m, açoutamento m
Russian: по́рка (ru) f (pórka)
Spanish: azotamiento m
Swedish: prygel (sv) n, aga (sv) c
Turkish: kamçılama (tr), kırbaçlama

Verb

flogging

present participle and gerund of flog

See also

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