Whipping - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈwɪpɪŋ|
Brit.
|ˈwɪpɪŋ|
noun
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment (syn: flagellation, flogging, lashing)
- a sound defeat (syn: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, walloping)
- a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally (syn: whipstitch)
- the act of overcoming or outdoing (syn: beating)
- a sound defeat (syn: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, walloping)
- a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally (syn: whipstitch)
- the act of overcoming or outdoing (syn: beating)
adjective
Extra examples
...suffered a whipping that took them out of competition...
The flag was whipping in the strong wind.
Sailors sometimes faced brutal punishments like whipping.
...his heartless whipping of runaway slaves virtually to the point of death shocked even other slave owners...
...used the government's economic policies as the whipping boy for every bad decision the company made...
Mother was in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cakes.
Word forms
noun
singular: whipping
plural: whippings
singular: whipping
plural: whippings
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