I won't flog a dead horse.
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Flog
//flɑɡ//
Synonyms for "flog" (203 found)
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Related words (101)
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4 entriesRelated terms
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16 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 30 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- μαστιγόω verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- ἱμάσσω verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бичувам verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- шибам с бич verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Catalan
2 entries- assotar verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- flagel·lar verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 棰 verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- 鞭打 verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- 鞭笞 verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Czech
1 entries- bičovat verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Dutch
1 entries- geselen verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Esperanto
1 entries- skurĝi verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Finnish
4 entries- piestä verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- piiskata verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- ruoskia verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- ryöstöviljellä verb (agriculture: to exploit)
French
2 entries- flageller verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- fouetter verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Galician
3 entries- fustrigar verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- xostrear verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- xostregar verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
German
2 entries- geißeln verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- peitschen verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Greek
2 entries- δέρνω verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- μαστιγώνω verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Hungarian
1 entries- megvesszőz verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Ido
1 entries- knutagar verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Irish
1 entries- liúr verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Italian
4 entries- flagellare verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- frustare verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- sfruttare verb (agriculture: to exploit)
- spremere verb (agriculture: to exploit)
Japanese
1 entries- 鞭打つ verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Latgalian
1 entries- pērt verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Latin
1 entries- verbero verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Latvian
1 entries- pērt verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Lithuanian
1 entries- perti verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Māori
1 entries- wepu verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قرباچلامق verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Polish
3 entries- biczować verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- chłostać verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- ubiczować verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Portuguese
2 entries- açoitar verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- chicotear verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Romanian
2 entries- biciui verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- flagela verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Russian
4 entries- бичева́ть verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- поро́ть verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- сечь verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- стега́ть verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Spanish
4 entries- azotar verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- esquilmar verb (agriculture: to exploit)
- explotar verb (agriculture: to exploit)
- flagelar verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Swedish
2 entries- piska verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- prygla verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Ukrainian
3 entries- бато́жити verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- сікти́ verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
- шмага́ти verb (to whip or scourge as punishment)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
People used to flog slaves.
Source: tatoeba (11535868)
For some half-hour he tried to comfort himself with an idea that he could get hold of Captain Marrable and maul him; that it would be a thing permissible for him, a magistrate, to go forth with a whip and flog the man, and then perhaps shoot him, because the man had been fortunate in love where he had been unfortunate.
Source: tatoeba (11660522)
The taskmasters had established the right to flog their slaves; they had dammed up the slowly rising waters of rebellion, but these rose to their level at last, and overflowed, and slavery is no more.
Source: tatoeba (12176212)
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