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Meanings of whipping in English

Portuguese
surra
Catalan
pallissa
Spanish
paliza

A sound defeat.

surra
Portuguese
flagelação
Spanish
flagelación

Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.

flagelação
Spanish
sobrehilado en diagonal

A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally.

sobrehilado en diagonal
Portuguese
superação
Catalan
superació

The act of overcoming or outdoing.

superação
Usage of whipping in English
1
Policy debate in Ireland involves whipping up emotions rather than cogent debate.
The Irish Times
2
The stocks and the whipping-post stood by the side of the meeting-house.
Reform and Politics / Part 2 from The Works of John Greenleaf Wh...
3
House leaders are still whipping votes as Friday's deadline for passage approaches.
The Guardian
4
He had no problem whipping anyone or anything when it was deserved.
Carte Blanche
5
His new penal code also punishes Muslims caught drinking alcohol with whipping.
News.com.au
6
She had decided on the vanilla and was whipping it briskly in.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
7
No driver could have held it with the trailer whipping that way.
Night Shift
8
Here was the stump of the whipping-post cut even with the ground.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Havilan...
9
Democratic critics accuse Bush of whipping up fears to get his way.
Reuters
10
Karl had already began to blubber in anticipation of the whipping due.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
11
The following minutes were a blur of whipping branches and sudden zigzags.
The Postman
12
His hands held back the thorns and briers and the whipping hardbacks.
Darkness and Dawn
13
Troubridge gazed up at the new flag whipping out at the fore.
Man of War
14
I thought of Doctor Fischer at the party whipping on his hounds.
Dr Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
15
The whipping and the kicking had but little effect on them now.
The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway
16
You can fight whipping duels with this incredibly long and robust seaweed.
Hermit in paris: autobiographical writings
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Whipping across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
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