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synonyms for flog

  • castigate
  • chastise
  • spank
  • beat
  • belt
  • cane
  • flagellate
  • flay
  • hide
  • hit
  • larrup
  • lather
  • leather
  • paddle
  • scourge
  • strike
  • stripe
  • thrash
  • trounce
  • wax
  • whack
  • whale
  • whomp
  • whop
  • ferule
  • flax
  • give the cat o'nine tails
  • tan one's hide
See also synonyms for: flogged / flogger / flogging

antonyms for flog

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  • compliment
  • fail
  • guard
  • lose
  • protect
  • tap
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How to use flog in a sentence

It gave him the plausible deniability he and his defenders flogged throughout his presidency.
THE GOP’S MANY ALLUSIONS TO ARMED REVOLUTION AND JUSTIFIED VIOLENCEAARON BLAKEOCTOBER 28, 2021WASHINGTON POST
He flogged people with his own hands, sometimes until they were dead, Grandy wrote.
THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP WAS A REFUGE FOR THE ENSLAVED. THEIR DESCENDANTS WANT TO PRESERVE IT.MEAGAN FLYNNAPRIL 11, 2021WASHINGTON POST
All I can say is, that I wish he was well, and could have us up and flog us all round, and so settle the matter off-hand.
DIGBY HEATHCOTEW.H.G. KINGSTON
Thus the game was played to the end, it being a flog out from New Brighton to the Formby, and a run back each round.
YACHTING VOL. 2VARIOUS.
He carried an ash-plant in his hand to flog the horse and to strike at the dogs that crossed his way.
THE KING OF IRELAND'S SONPADRAIC COLUM
He was minded to flog an Indian or two, and thus extract information; but calmer counsels prevailed.
THE TERMS OF SURRENDERLOUIS TRACY
The masters here are very strict indeed, but they never flog, only lock them up in a dungeon, and have a soldier to guard it.
THE STORY OF THE "BRITANNIA"E. P. STATHAM
He war sort o' sassy, and de Oberseer strung him up and flog him bery hard.
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. I. FEBRUARY, 1862, NO. II.VARIOUS
They were like evasive Trappist monks, who profess mortification of the flesh, but when it comes to the scratch, don't flog fair.
SOMEHOW GOODWILLIAM DE MORGAN
However, seeing I was as determined to flog as she was to cry, she desisted before the tenth blow and became silent.
STANLEY'S ADVENTURES IN THE WILDS OF AFRICAJOEL TYLER HEADLEY AND WILLIAM FLETCHER JOHNSON
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