Word Finder - flogged

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To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.

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To use something to extreme; to abuse.

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To sell.

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To steal something.

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To defeat easily or convincingly.

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To exploit.

Omar, had been arrested and flogged on his orders.

A French cook accused of being a spy was being flogged.

Many hundreds of years ago, she would have flogged herself with birch twigs.

The whole work is then flogged by hitting the brush against the surface all the way up the panel.

In the autumn Caesar held a conference at Durocortorum (Reims), and Acco, a chief of the Senones, was convicted of treason and flogged to death.

John Hylilas was deposed and flogged in turn.

By contrast, Coates flogged his 49- strong chain of high street bookies in 2005 for a paltry?40m.

If they are found by the patrol after the time to which their pass extends, they are severely flogged.

On returning to the Ukraine he settled down quietly on his paternal estate, and in all probability history would never have known his name if the intolerable persecution of a neighbouring Polish squire, who stole his hayricks and flogged his infant son to death, had not converted the thrifty and acquisitive Cossack husbandman into one of the most striking and sinister figures of modern times.

If they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don't suppose they are any the worse off.

The penance lasted 332 days, during which they flogged themselves with thongs fitted with four iron points.

It was always Prince Albert's opinion that if Oxford had been flogged the attempt of Francis on the queen in 1842 and of Bean in the same year would never have been perpetrated.

Religious instruction continued to be given to them in German, and when they refused to answer questions which they did not understand, they were kept in and flogged.

Hanbal, who obstinately refused to yield, was flogged in the year 834 - but it seems that Motasim did not himself take much interest in the question, which perhaps he hardly understood, and that the prosecution of the inquisition by him was due in great part to the charge which was left him in Mamun's will.

The caliph had him flogged, and compelled each of the twenty-seven to give him ten blows on the head with his fist.

A great many leading men were flogged to death, all churches and synagogues were destroyed and all the Christians banished.

Titus drove into exile or reduced to slavery those who had served Nero, of ter they had first been flogged in the amphitheatre.

It is believed that King John established Beaulieu as an act of penance after he dreamt that he was being flogged by Cistercian abbots.

It was his good fortune that he did go back, for he was subjected to a wholesome course of ridicule by the other boys, and was flogged by Dr Barnard, the headmaster.

Although several were closely imprisoned, loaded with chains and repeatedly flogged, it is a noteworthy fact that none was put to death.