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• n  beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
• v  beat severely with a whip or rod
• v  beat with a cane

• A Sudanese judge convicted a woman journalist for violating the public indecency law by wearing trousers outdoors and fined her $200, but did not impose a feared flogging penalty.
• To head that off, Byington says, China is flogging a flawed interpretation of Koguryo's history that is "obviously ideologically driven.
• Beneath the impartial face of British Justice lies a streak of legal ruthlessness: through the centuries, Britons have found reasons for flogging people.

• whipping
• tanning
• lashing
• flagellation
• flog
• welt
• whip
• lather
• lash
• slash
• strap
• trounce
• cane
• lambaste
• lambast

News & Articles

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• Killer texted plans from victim's home
  The street definition of “flogging” is to lie.
  June 15, 2013 - The Times and Democrat
• He's nuts!!! Poet 'selling testicles to fund trip to Europe'
  A poet has declared he is selling his testicles to fund a holiday. Madcap Raffael Medina Brochero claims he is flogging his male parts for £12,800 so he can tour Europe with his poetry. He told a radio host in his home of Magdalena, Colombia, that he will give...
  June 14, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Harry Redknapp in The Sun
  But Redknapp told his old mate Fergie: "There's no chance of it happening at all. Luka's key to everything that's happening at this place. Everybody knows what I think of him. And if you want to move on to higher levels you don't start flogging off...
• Kevin Doyle in Derby Evening Telegraph
  The gaffer said there was no point flogging a dead horse and I have played too many minutes - and to be fair the international games were on two of the heaviest pitches I have played on,Doyle told the Reading Evening Post. "As a player I...
• Stephen Lewis in Reuters.uk
  If I had it in my grasp I would take them out behind the international woodshed and give them an intellectual and rhetorical flogging, the like of which they would never forget,Lewis told a news conference.