Synonyms for whipping
ˈʰwɪp ɪŋ, ˈwɪp-whip·ping

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1. whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellationnoun

   beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, flagellation, thrashing, debacle, whipstitch, walloping, lashing, drubbing, whipstitching, flogging, tanning, beating, slaughter

   Antonyms:
   spiritless

2. thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whippingnoun

   a sound defeat

   Synonyms:
   whacking, beating, flogging, whipstitch, mass murder, whipstitching, lacing, carnage, debacle, walloping, drubbing, butchery, thrashing, licking, fiasco, trouncing, massacre, lashing, tanning, flagellation, slaughter

   Antonyms:
   spiritless

3. whipstitch, whipping, whipstitchingnoun

   a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, flagellation, thrashing, flogging, whipstitch, walloping, debacle, lashing, drubbing, whipstitching, tanning, beating, slaughter

   Antonyms:
   spiritless

4. beating, whippingadjective

   the act of overcoming or outdoing

   Synonyms:
   whacking, beating, flogging, whipstitch, whipstitching, lacing, lashing, drubbing, thrashing, licking, walloping, debacle, trouncing, tanning, flagellation, slaughter

   Antonyms:
   spiritless

5. snappy, whippingadjective

   smart and fashionable

   "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines"

   Synonyms:
   spanking, nipping, lively, rakish, alert, snappy, crisp, dapper, dashing, snappish, rattling, raffish, merry, frosty, jaunty, zippy, nippy, natty, brisk, spiffy, spruce

   Antonyms:
   spiritless

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1. • Sewing Stitch

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1. whippingnoun

   Synonyms:
   flogging, beating, castigation, thrashing, LICKING

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1. whippingnoun

   Synonyms:
   chastisement, castigation, punishment, scourging, trouncing, flagellation, beating, lashing, fustigation, flogging, mauling, defeat

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1. List of paraphrases for "whipping":

   flogging, whip, lashing, caning, skin

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1. whipping

   Synonyms:
   Flagellantism, flagellomania,

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1. Van Jones:

   The things that Donald Trump has done, and not just in this race, are horribly offensive, there is a dark underside here...he is whipping up and tapping into and pushing buttons that are very, very frightening to me and to a lot of people.

2. Whitney Vaughan:

   The flames were whipping and spreading so fast, it began to jump the road. There wasn't anywhere to go.

3. Robin Green:

   That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion.

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

5. Max Stern:

   We can not help but think it not coincidental that the decision by Yale University officials to seek expulsion of the captain of Yale University basketball team followed by little more than a month the report of the Association of American Universities( AAU) which was highly critical of the incidence of sexual assault on the Yale University campus, and the Yale University President's promise, in response, to' redouble our efforts,' from what appears, Jack Montague has been pilloried as a' whipping boy' for a campus problem that has galvanized national attention.