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birched

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Poor child,” thought Eric; “dear little Vernon: and he is to be flogged, perhaps birched, to-morrow.

The three boys wandered away as far as Acle, eleven miles from Norwich, whence they were ignomimously brought back and birched.

Take care of your book, cap, and gloves, or youll be birched on your bare bottom.

I hated this, and would rather have been birched secundum artem than to have seen the girls giggling at me.

The victims had first to go out into the woods to gather the branches with which later they were to be birched.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to birched, such as: chastened, dismissed, imprisoned, penalized, null, and chastised.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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