Whips Synonyms and Antonyms

Beat severely with a whip or rod
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lashes
  2. flogs
  3. scourges
  4. punishes
  5. trounces
  6. licks
  7. hides
  8. whisks
  9. wallops
  10. urges
  11. tans
  12. switches
  13. trims
  14. swishes
  15. beats
  16. thrashes
  17. strikes
  18. stitches
  19. slashes
  20. spanks
  21. snatches
  22. shellacs
  23. pushes
  24. provokes
  25. mauls
  26. laces
  27. jerks
  28. flicks
  29. flashes
  30. flagellates
  31. drubs
  32. disciplines
  33. lathers
  34. defeats
  35. dashes
  36. darts
  37. conquers
  38. clobbers
  39. chastises
  40. castigates
  41. bludgeons
  42. belts
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Whip with or as if with a wire whisk
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. whisks
  2. scalds
  3. beats
  4. blisters
  5. stirs
A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lashes
  2. scourges
  3. switches
  4. thongs
  5. canes
  6. straps
  7. crops
  8. rods
  9. rulers

Words Related to Whips

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Whips Sentence Examples

  • Secondly, since the removal of most hereditary peers in 1999, party whips have become more forthright.

  • The town was an important coaching centre, and there was a large local industry in the manufacture of whips.

  • The young shoots, being flexible and tough, are employed in France as whips.

  • At the same time the government's tenure of office was obviously drawing to its close; the usual interpretation of the Septennial Act involved a dissolution either in 1905 or 1906, and the government whips found increased difficulty in keeping a majority at Westminster, since neither the pronounced Chamberlainites nor the convinced free-trade Unionists showed any zeal, and a large number of the uncertain Unionists did not intend to stand again for parliament.

  • Look at his arrogant swagger as he whips his floppy hair across his brow.

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