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1. Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
   - tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation
    
2. A sound defeat
   - thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, débâcle
    
3. A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
   - whipstitch, whipstitching
    
4. The act of overcoming or outdoing
   - beating

1. Smart and fashionable
   "some sharp and whipping lines"
   - snappy

1. Beat severely with a whip or rod
   - flog, welt, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
    
2. Defeat thoroughly
   - worst, pip, mop up, rack up
    
3. Thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash
   "The tall grass whipped in the wind"
    
4. Strike as if by whipping
   "The curtain whipped her face"
   - lash
    
5. Whip with or as if with a wire whisk
   - whisk
    
6. Subject to harsh criticism
   - blister, scald

Derived forms: whippings

See also: spirited, whip up, whipper

Type of: assail, assault, attack, beat, beat out, beat up, beating, combat, convulse, crush, defeat, drubbing, embroidery stitch, fight, fighting, jactitate, lacing, lash out, licking, round, scramble, scrap, sewing stitch, shell, slash, snipe, strike, thrash, thrash about, thrashing, thresh, thresh about, toss, trounce, trouncing, vanquish, whacking, work over

Encyclopedia: Whip