Definition

Noun: 1. A beating administered with a whip, strap, or rope as a form of punishment or torture. It refers to the act of striking someone repeatedly with such an instrument.

Usage

The word "flogging" is used to describe a specific, often severe, physical punishment. It is typically used in historical, legal, or disciplinary contexts. - It is commonly modified by adjectives describing its nature (e.g., public flogging, severe flogging, judicial flogging). - It often appears as the object of verbs like receive, give, order, or undergo.

Examples

• Noun:
  • The sailor received a flogging for disobeying orders.
  • Public flogging was a common punishment in the 18th century.
  • The abolition of judicial flogging was a major reform.

Advanced Usage

• "to be sentenced to a flogging": to receive a flogging as an official legal punishment.
  • The court sentenced him to a flogging for his crime.
• "to administer a flogging": to carry out the act of flogging.
  • The captain administered the flogging himself.

Variants and Related Words

• Flog (verb): to beat someone with a whip or stick as a punishment.
  • The authorities would flog offenders in the town square.
• Flagellation (noun): the act of flogging or whipping, often used in a more formal or historical context, and sometimes with religious connotations (e.g., self-flagellation).

Synonyms

• Whipping: beating with a whip.
• Lashing: striking with a whip or something similar.
• Flagellation: (formal) flogging or whipping.
• Beating: a general term for hitting someone repeatedly.

Related Phrases

• Cat-o'-nine-tails: a whip with nine knotted cords, historically used for flogging in the British navy and army.
  • The flogging was carried out with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

Noun

1. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment