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How to pronounce whipping in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping
Type of licking, defeat
Derivation whip
Type Words
Synonyms whipstitch, whipstitching
Type of sewing stitch, embroidery stitch
Has types overcast, overcasting
Type Words
Synonyms snappy


some sharp and whipping lines.
Type Words
Synonyms beating
Type of combat, scrap, fighting, fight
Type Words
Synonyms flagellation, flogging, lashing, tanning
Type of beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking
Has types horsewhipping, self-flagellation
Derivation whip

Examples of whipping

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For 36 years Farnes was Milligan's agent, manager, confidante and whipping post.
From the express.co.uk
It will then be a question of whipping them out if they all turn out to be male.
From the telegraph.co.uk
State television footage showed the sleek white train whipping past farm fields.
From the sfgate.com
You looked so scared at the beginning and now you're just whipping through them.
From the npr.org
Whipping the bare backsides of scrawnier kids and pointing and laughing at them.
From the guardian.co.uk
The usual whipping boys in this regard are E. O. Wilson and Alexander Rosenberg.
From the scienceblogs.com
For Ecuador and Venezuela, unglamorous whipping boys, it was all but impossible.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Add vanilla and a few drops of food coloring, and continue whipping until stiff.
From the suntimes.com
What the Tigers need now is to play well at KU, to avoid an out and out whipping.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
  • Snappy: smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines"
  • Thrashing: a sound defeat
  • Whipstitch: a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
  • Beating: the act of overcoming or outdoing
  • (whip) an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
  • A whisk is a cooking utensil used in food preparation to blend ingredients smooth, or to incorporate air into a mixture, in a process known as ' or '. Most whisks consist of a long, narrow handle with a series of wire loops joined at the end. ...
  • Vitalogy is the third studio album by the American grunge band Pearl Jam, released on November 22, 1994 through Epic Records. Pearl Jam wrote and recorded Vitalogy while touring behind its previous album Vs. (1993). ...
  • (The Whip (play)) The Whip is a play first performed in 1909 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. A melodrama with intricate scenery and spectacular stage effects including a horse race and a train crash, the production would tour overseas and inspire a 1917 film by the same name.