FLOG (flogged, flogging)
Dictionary entry overview: What does flog mean?
• FLOG (verb)
The verb FLOG has 2 senses:
1. beat severely with a whip or rod
2. beat with a cane
Familiarity information: FLOG used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FLOG (verb)
Meaning:
Beat severely with a whip or rod
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
flog; whip; welt; trounce; lash; strap; slash; lather
Context examples:
The teacher often flogged the students / The children were severely trounced
Hypernyms (to "flog" is one way to...):
beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flog"):
flagellate; scourge (whip)
leather (beat with a lather strap)
horsewhip (whip with a whip intended for horses)
switch (flog with or as if with a flexible rod)
cowhide (flog with a cowhide)
cat (beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails)
birch (whip with a birch twig)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to flog the prisoners
Meaning:
Beat with a cane
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
cane; lambast; lambaste; flog
Hypernyms (to "flog" is one way to...):
beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to flog the prisoners
