Whipping

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of one that whips.
  • n. A thrashing administered especially as punishment.
  • n. Material, such as cord or thread, used to lash or bind parts.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The punishment of being whipped.
  • n. A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
  • n. A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream etc.
  • n. A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
  • n. The lashing of the end of a rope. (FM 55-501).
  • v. Present participle of whip.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • a & n. from whip, v.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In golf, the thin twine with which the head and shaft of a club are bound together.
  • n. A beating; flagellation.
  • n. A defeat; a beating: as, the enemy got a good whipping. See whip, verb, 9.
  • n. Nautical, a piece of twine or small cord wound. round the end of a rope to keep it from unlaying.
  • n. In bookbinding, the sewing of the raw edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread [Eng.]: known in the United States as whip-stitching.
  • n. In sewing, same as overcasting, 2.
  • n. The act or method of casting the fly in angling; casting.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
  • n. a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
  • adj. smart and fashionable
  • n. a sound defeat
  • n. the act of overcoming or outdoing
    • Equivalent
    spirited   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    defeat    licking    fight    combat    scrap   
    Cross Reference
    defeat   
    Variant
    whip   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flagellatory    flagellative   
    Verb Stem
    whip   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    chipping    clipping    dipping    dripping    equipping   
     
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