flog

[ flog, flawg ]

/ flɒg, flɔg /

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verb (used with object), flogged, flog·ging.

to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.

Slang.

to sell, especially aggressively or vigorously.
to promote; publicize.

Origin of flog

1670–80; perhaps blend of flay and jog, variant of jag¹ to prick, slash; but cf. flagellate

SYNONYMS FOR flog

1 thrash, lash.

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OTHER WORDS FROM flog

flog·ga·ble, adjective flog·ger, noun o·ver·flog, verb (used with object), o·ver·flogged, o·ver·flog·ging. un·flog·ga·ble, adjective

un·flogged, adjective

Words nearby flog

flocking, flocky, flodden, floe, floeberg, flog, flokati, flong, flood, flood basalt, flood control

Example sentences from the Web for flogging

According to some reports, the flogging of the new mother is to take place in less than two weeks.

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“We ask actress Leila Hatami be sentenced to one to ten years imprisonment and flogging,” the petition read.

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“It was a flogging or worse if you even carried a match into the mine,” one of the French laborers had told Walker Hancock.

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In a nation of couch potatoes, advertisers know the value of flogging their brands when the orchestra starts to gush.

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Yes, long before Romeo Beckham was starring in ads for Burberry, we Sykes children were flogging schmutter for our parents.

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It was only then that the flogging stopped, and the rural judge ran away from the kiln.

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Jock did not act as the generous hero of romance would have done, and volunteer to share the flogging.

Magnum Bonum |Charlotte M. Yonge
And the object for flogging under such circumstances, is to make the slaves anxious to be sold.

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself |Henry Bibb
Flogging makes a heavy flogged type of human being who looks as if he had always needed flogging.

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For fear the slaves should run away, while unable to work from flogging, he kept them chained till they could work again.

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British Dictionary definitions for flogging

flog

/ (flɒɡ) /

verb flogs, flogging or flogged

(tr) to beat harshly, esp with a whip, strap, etc

(tr) British slang to sell

(intr) (of a sail) to flap noisily in the wind

(intr) to make progress by painful work

NZ to steal

flog a dead horse mainly British

to harp on some long discarded subject
to pursue the solution of a problem long realized to be insoluble

flog to death to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it

Derived forms of flog

flogger, noun flogging, noun

Word Origin for flog

C17: probably from Latin flagellāre; see flagellant

Idioms and Phrases with flogging

flog

see beat a dead horse.

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verb (used with object), flogged, flog·ging.

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flog

verb (used with object), flogged, flog·ging.

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