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Meanings of lashing in English
Portuguese
flagelação Spanish
flagelación Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.
Synonyms
Examples for "whipping"
Examples for "whipping"
1
Policy debate in Ireland involves whipping up emotions rather than cogent debate.
2
The stocks and the whipping-post stood by the side of the meeting-house.
3
House leaders are still whipping votes as Friday's deadline for passage approaches.
4
He had no problem whipping anyone or anything when it was deserved.
5
His new penal code also punishes Muslims caught drinking alcohol with whipping.
1
Enjoy your flogging the other day, Nish-Nash?' Muss clawed his way up.
2
As I say, it's all a long way from flogging fax machines.
3
Galbraith said, 'A flogging helps no one at a time like this.'
4
Seven years ago Sara Blakely was flogging fax machines door to door.
5
The second time, Jamie had been the only prisoner up for flogging.
1
November 2014: Launches a new tanning and skincare range called The Base.
2
He is concerned about the intensive use of sunbeds by tanning addicts.
3
He worked on his tanning and his canoe-making late in the afternoon.
4
The tanning he had done himself, slowly and laboriously, in frontier fashion.
5
Food and clothing were to be had for the killing and tanning.
1
It makes for a fantastic spectacle and a fascinating exercise in self-flagellation.
2
Then again, there's no need to make a massive show of self-flagellation.
3
As ever, Euro offered an opportunity for the ritual self-flagellation of the English.
4
It wasn't quite the display of self-flagellation that some reformers would have liked.
5
He went back into his room and beat on his head in self-flagellation.
Usage of lashing in English
1
The Franschhoek-based will also enjoy a good lashing late on Tuesday night.
2
The clew of the mainsail was lashing about wildly in the gale.
3
The devil astride the jib boom, his tail lashing in the wind.
4
That we're going to lose control and start lashing out at people?
5
Then the rain broke-brokein lashing whip-cordswith the crackle of fire.
6
He drew the trigger and the sharp lashing report ended the silence.
7
After he gave me a tongue-lashing he left for home with Barbara.
8
More heavy fire came down the corridor, lashing at the assaulting soldiers.
9
The coils wound and unwound vigorously, the tail convulsively lashing the sheet.
10
The lashing winds are expected to ease on Thursday, the MOT said.
11
Mick Minogue is lashing out some brilliant Game of Thrones action figures.
12
The Book of Proverbs also is full of the same lashing scourge.
13
Their jaws dripped blood; they paced backwards and forwards, lashing their tails.
14
Gorju went off, lashing the leaves of the trees with his switch.
15
The wing-back took a touch before lashing low into the far corner.
16
As the thing died, the phosphor glow faded from its lashing tentacles.
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Lashing through the time
Lashing across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common