lashing
1. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
whipping, tanning, flogging, flagellation
• Derivationally related forms:
flagellate (for: flagellation), flog (for: flogging), whip (for: whipping)
• Hypernyms:
beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing,
trouncing, whacking
• Hyponyms:
self-flagellation, horsewhipping
2. rope that is used for fastening something to something else
- the boats were held together by lashings
• Hypernyms:
rope, fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
violently urging on by whipping or flogging (Freq. 1)
- looked at the lashing riders
• Similar to:
violent
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