verb
definition
To beat using a flail or similar implement.
definition
To wave or swing vigorously
synonyms
definition
To thresh.
definition
To move like a flail.
example
He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow.
noun
definition
A flailing action or motion.
example
The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.
Examples of flailing in a Sentence
His opponent was flailing again.
The ball passes his flailing hands by mere centimeters.
The boxing, for instance, is not just flailing around.
He snatched her again by her belt, then grabbed both flailing wrists and swept her feet from beneath her, falling with her.
And unlike her sister Liza, she has none of her mother's physical mannerisms (the braced legs, the flailing arms ).
I do not agree with flailing the hedgerows, but summer growth is so profuse.
With a map in hand, allocation is much easier to do than when you're flying by the seat of your pants and potentially flailing in too many directions.
He also took on a different personality, usually one that was flailing and frightful.
The panicked screaming, kicking, thrashing, and flailing is alarming in its intensity.
The screaming, flailing, and kicking that accompany a night terror may frighten parents who fear the child is having a seizure.
Parents can tell what babies need by the loudness and pitch of crying and the flailing of arms and legs.
Pushing and shoving can be dangerous, and if users crowd each other, flailing limbs can cause bruises and black eyes.
From the time a baby reaches out to grasp a flailing appendage only to realize that the wiggling, pink thing in front of his face is actually his own foot, children are learning what it is to be human.
The leg wound from Shipton's flailing ice ax had been an eight-stitcher of no permanent consequence but the clump of frozen mountain Dean caught on the head kept him fuzzy and blurred his vision for a day and a half, necessitating the stay.
Action Men with wildly flailing limbs, thrown helplessly about at terrifying velocity.
Babies may begin flailing at objects that interest them by two weeks of age but cannot grasp them.
The vampire struggled to break free, a blur of flailing limbs.
I desperately race around the classroom, arms flailing in clumsy attempts to grasp at adolescent screeches and high-pitched howls of derisive laughter.
Now, please, ladies - no wailing, no flailing, no suicides, no tears.
Sneering at Jackson in disgust, Victor stood in front of Elisabeth and began hitting her, first with open hand and then backhand, sending her head flailing from side to side.
Xander rose, snatching the flailing coffee mug with one hand while gripping her around the waist with his other.
The leg wound from Shipton's flailing ice ax had been an eight-stitcher of no permanent consequence.