FLOG (flogged, flogging)

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Irregular inflected forms: 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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they flog    ... he / she / it flogs   
Past simple: flogged   
Past participle: flogged   
-ing form: flogging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beat severely with a whip or rod

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip

Context example:

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 (whip with a leather 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

Derivation:

flogging (beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Beat with a cane

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cane; flog; lambast; lambaste

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

Derivation:

flogging (beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment)

 Context examples 

"See," he said, "they come quickly; they are flogging the horses, and galloping as hard as they can."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A little flogging for man and woman too would be the best way of preventing such things.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I tell you, Clara,” said Mr. Murdstone, “I have been often flogged myself.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He has been known to drive his wife and daughter out of doors in the middle of the night and flog them through the park until the whole village outside the gates was aroused by their screams.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But then it seems disgraceful to be flogged, and to be sent to stand in the middle of a room full of people; and you are such a great girl: I am far younger than you, and I could not bear it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Much had been done and much had been said in the regiment since the preceding Wednesday; several of the officers had dined lately with their uncle, a private had been flogged, and it had actually been hinted that Colonel Forster was going to be married.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

On the evening of the day on which I had seen Miss Scatcherd flog her pupil, Burns, I wandered as usual among the forms and tables and laughing groups without a companion, yet not feeling lonely: when I passed the windows, I now and then lifted a blind, and looked out; it snowed fast, a drift was already forming against the lower panes; putting my ear close to the window, I could distinguish from the gleeful tumult within, the disconsolate moan of the wind outside.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a great jest of his, I recollect, to pretend that he couldn't keep his teeth from chattering, whenever mention was made of an Alguazill in connexion with the adventures of Gil Blas; and I remember that when Gil Blas met the captain of the robbers in Madrid, this unlucky joker counterfeited such an ague of terror, that he was overheard by Mr. Creakle, who was prowling about the passage, and handsomely flogged for disorderly conduct in the bedroom.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)