flogging

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ

flogging (countable and uncountable, plural floggings)

1. Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.

   Synonyms: whipping, flagellation, scourging

   What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.

   • 1991, Alan Wood, “Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia”, in Alan Wood, editor, The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolution, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 124:

     However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.

• Florentine flogging

flogging

1. present participle and gerund of flog