whipping

Speech parts

1. whipping - Noun

2. whipping - Verb

Derived from whip

4. whipping - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Whip

a & n. from Whip, v.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

loss flagellation flog punishment hiding beating blowing slaughter swinging pounding tanning trimming spanking licking debacle
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Antonyms

win passing triumph massacre discouraging soothing
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Hypernyms

fighting fight combat defeat beating scrap

Hyponyms

overcast self-flagellation horsewhipping overcasting

Phrases with the word

give a whipping whipping up sole whipping whipping top be a whipping boy belt whipping

Examples

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping. Plutarch

While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster. Vladimir Nabokov

The sea is whipping the sky The sky is whipping the sea You can hide away forever from the storm But you'll never hide away from me. Jim Steinman

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe. Konstantin Chernenko

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Harriet Beecher Stowe

When the sun shines and it rains the devil is whipping his wife. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

whippety whippily whippiness whipping boy whipping cream whipping girl