All whip synonyms
whip
W w noun whip
- lash β an ocean-going vessel equipped with special cranes and holds for lifting and stowing cargo-carrying barges that can be sailed up inland waterways or into port facilities from offshore.
- crop β Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food.
- cat-o'-nine-tails β a rope whip consisting of nine knotted thongs, used formerly to flog prisoners
- belt β A belt is a strip of leather or cloth that you fasten round your waist.
- switch β a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- rod β a male given name, form of Roderick or Rodney.
- cane β Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
- bat β A bat is a specially shaped piece of wood that is used for hitting the ball in baseball, softball, cricket, rounders, or table tennis.
- birch β A birch or a birch tree is a type of tall tree with thin branches.
- goad β a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- horsewhip β a whip for controlling horses.
- knout β a whip with a lash of leather thongs, formerly used in Russia for flogging criminals.
- prod β to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- push β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- rawhide β untanned skin of cattle or other animals.
- ruler β a person who rules or governs; sovereign.
- scourge β a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- strap β a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- thong β a strip of material, especially of leather or hide, used to fasten or secure something.
- bullwhip β A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
verb whip
- beat β If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- thrash β to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- flagellate β to whip; scourge; flog; lash.
- flog β to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
- bash β A bash is a party or celebration, especially a large one held by an official organization or attended by famous people.
- spank β to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
- bludgeon β To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- castigate β If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
- chastise β If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- cudgel β A cudgel is a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon.
- drub β to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
- ferule β a ring or cap, usually of metal, put around the end of a post, cane, or the like, to prevent splitting.
- hide β Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- larrup β to beat or thrash.
- lather β a worker who puts up laths.
- punish β to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- strike β to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- tan β to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- trash β anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- wallop β to beat soundly; thrash.
- whale β any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
- whomp β a loud, heavy blow, slap, bang, or the like: He fell with an awful whomp.
- cream β Cream is a thick yellowish-white liquid taken from milk. You can use it in cooking or put it on fruit or desserts.
- aerate β To aerate a substance means to cause air or gas to pass through it.
- stir β to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- whisk β to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke: She whisked everything off the table with her arm.
- blast β A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
- overpower β to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.
- rout β a bellow.
- trounce β to beat severely; thrash.