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Noun flogging has 1 sense
- whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation - beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
--1 is a kind of beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking
--1 has particulars: self-flagellation; horsewhipping
Verb flog has 2 senses
- flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
--1 is one way to beat, beat up, work over
Sample sentence:
They want to flog the prisoners
- cane, flog, lambaste, lambast - beat with a cane
--2 is one way to beat, beat up, work over
Sample sentence:
They want to flog the prisoners
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