flog

[ flog, flawg ]

/ flɒg, flɔg /

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verb (used with object), flogged, flog·ging.

to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.

Slang.

to sell, especially aggressively or vigorously.
to promote; publicize.

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Origin of flog

1670–80; perhaps blend of flay and jog, variant of jag¹ to prick, slash; but cf. flagellate

SYNONYMS FOR flog

1. thrash, lash.

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Related forms

flog·ga·ble, adjectiveflog·ger, nouno·ver·flog, verb (used with object), o·ver·flogged, o·ver·flog·ging.un·flog·ga·ble, adjective

un·flogged, adjective

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Examples from the Web for flogged

In one recent case, he said a man accused of kidnapping was hung from an iron bar and flogged with a machete.
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But it was a ruse; Northup was kidnapped, flogged, and sold for $1,000 at a slave market in New Orleans.
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Since December 21, we have been flogged with news item after news item about the threatened closure of Russian adoption.
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The house grew restless, inattentive, Andrew flogged his soul until he seemed to sweat his heart's blood.
The Mountebank|William J. Locke

While in command of a vessel in Tobago, he had his carpenter, Maxwell, flogged for some offence.
Twelve Naval Captains|Molly Elliot Seawell
At length, he flogged me into serious ill-health, and then he stayed his hand, and I found relief on a bed of sickness.
Rattlin the Reefer|Edward Howard
On the other hand, if he were in any way remiss in his duties, he was flogged with a brutality worthy of the Dark Ages.
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But his misdemeanors continued and he was finally sentenced to be flogged.
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British Dictionary definitions for flogged

flog

/ (flɒɡ) /

verb flogs, flogging or flogged

(tr) to beat harshly, esp with a whip, strap, etc

(tr) British slang to sell

(intr) (of a sail) to flap noisily in the wind

(intr) to make progress by painful work

NZ to steal

flog a dead horse mainly British

to harp on some long discarded subject
to pursue the solution of a problem long realized to be insoluble

flog to death to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it

Derived Formsflogger, nounflogging, noun

Word Origin for flog

C17: probably from Latin flagellāre; see flagellant

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Word Origin and History for flogged

flog

1670s, slang, perhaps a schoolboy shortening of Latin flagellare "flagellate." Related: Flogged; flogging.

Idioms and Phrases with flogged

flog

see beat a dead horse.

flog

verb (used with object), flogged, flog·ging.

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