flog

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• COUNT in NET: 7 in 7 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses) (in NT : 5 in 5 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

flog, v. t. [Cf. Scot. fleg blow, stroke, kick, AS. flocan to strike, or perh. fr. L. flagellare to whip. Cf. Flagellate.].

 To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flog, v. (flogged, flogging)
1 tr. a beat with a whip, stick, etc. (as a punishment or to urge on). b make work through violent effort (flogged the engine).
2 tr. Brit. sl. sell.
3 tr. (usu. foll. by into, out of) drive (a quality, knowledge, etc.) into or out of a person, esp. by physical punishment.
4 intr. & refl. sl. proceed by violent or painful effort.

Idiom

flog a dead horse waste energy on something unalterable. flog to death colloq. talk about or promote at tedious length.

Derivative

flogger n.

Etymology

17th-c. cant: prob. imit. or f. L flagellare to whip

THESAURUS

flog

baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, goad, hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, needle, nudge, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, promote, publicize, pummel, punish, rawhide, scourge, sell, smite, spank, spur, sting, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop

ROGET THESAURUS

flog

Punishment

VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.

Physical Pain

VB feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain, suffer, ache, smart, bleed, tingle, shoot, twinge, twitch, lancinate, writhe, wince, make a wry face, sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles, give pain, inflict pain, lacerate, pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe, pinch, tweak, grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse, torment, torture, rack, agonize, crucify, cruciate, excruciate, break on the wheel, put to the rack, flog, grate on the ear.