flagellate

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I will cut him up, sir; I will flay him--flagellate him--finish him!

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  1. transitive verb To whip or flog; scourge.
  2. transitive verb To punish or impel as if by whipping.
  3. adjective Biology Flagellated.
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  • Shia pilgrims flagellate themselves with chains dangling with knife-blades and cry out to Ali, father of the martyred Hussain, and revered in Shia Islam. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • Nor do you really want to fix it, you are on top, occasionally insincerely self-flagellate and move on. —  Scobleizer
  • Adaptation flagellate Herpetomonas swainei sp. n. ten species Tenthredinidae Diprionidae —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Last year's hook was the government health advisory warning penitents to receive tetanus vaccinations, to ensure that they self-flagellate only with "well-maintained" whips, and to disinfect their four-inch nails prior to hammering them through each others 'hands and feet. —  Planet Atheism
  • I, meanwhile, fight tears and the urge to self-flagellate when this is all over. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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  1. Latin flagellāre, flagellāt-, to whip, from flagellum, diminutive of flagrum, whip.

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  1. from Latin flagellatus, past participle of flagellare (later Italian flagellare = Portuguese Provencal flagellar = French flageller), whip, scourge, lash, from flagellum, a whip, scourge (whence English flail, q. v.), diminutive of flagrum, a whip, scourge; perhaps akin to English blow.
 

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/ˈflædʒɛleɪt/
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