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Meanings of flogging in inglés

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

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        Usage of flogging in inglés
        1
        Enjoy your flogging the other day, Nish-Nash?' Muss clawed his way up.
        Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
        2
        As I say, it's all a long way from flogging fax machines.
        The Guardian
        3
        Galbraith said, 'A flogging helps no one at a time like this.'
        Second to None
        4
        Seven years ago Sara Blakely was flogging fax machines door to door.
        The Guardian
        5
        The second time, Jamie had been the only prisoner up for flogging.
        Outlander
        6
        Death was in the school-room, and Lugare had been flogging A CORPSE.
        Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
        7
        In the morning, even under the severest flogging, it will not rise.
        Waiting for the Barbarians
        8
        Discipline was severe, and flogging was the penalty for breaking the regulations.
        The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailo...
        9
        The fellow ought to have been given a public flogging for it.
        Dead Souls
        10
        Meanwhile on the shore, some lucky local is flogging my designer shorts.
        News.com.au
        11
        When a flogging offence was committed a boy was put down thus:
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        12
        Then: A native can always be made to talk by flogging him.
        The Ivory Trail
        13
        The culprits could expect nothing but a flogging at the captain's pleasure.
        Sustained honor: The Age of Liberty Established
        14
        His pursuers, expecting a flogging should he escape, dashed in after him.
        The Two Shipmates
        15
        Tying somebody up and flogging her-that'dbe too much remove for him.
        Karen Memory
        16
        He recalls, for instance, the occasion of his only flogging at school.
        The Art of Letters
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        Translations for flogging
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        Flogging through the time
        Flogging across language varieties
        Ireland
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common