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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLOG, v.t. [L. figo, to strike, that is, to lay on; L. flagrum, flagellum, Eng. flail; Gr.; L. plaga, a stroke, Eng. plague, slay.]
To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows; a colloquial word, applied to whipping or beating for punishment; as, to flog a schoolboy or a sailor.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]
2: beat with a cane [syn: cane, flog, lambaste, lambast]

Merriam Webster's

verb (flogged; flogging) Etymology: perhaps modification of Latin flagellare to whip — more at flagellate Date: circa 1676 transitive verb 1. a. to beat with or as if with a rod or whip b. to criticize harshly 2. to force or urge into action ; drive 3. a. chiefly British to sell (as stolen goods) illegally <flogged their employers' petrol to ordinary motorists — Economist> b. sell 7 <traveled by horse, flogging encyclopedias — Robert Darnton> c. to promote aggressively ; plug <flying around the world flogging your movies — Peter Bogdanovich> 4. British steal 1 intransitive verb 1. flap, flutter <sails flogging> 2. British to move along with difficulty ; slog • flogger noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (flogged, flogging) 1 tr. a beat with a whip, stick, etc. (as a punishment or to urge on). b make work through violent effort (flogged the engine). 2 tr. Brit. sl. sell. 3 tr. (usu. foll. by into, out of) drive (a quality, knowledge, etc.) into or out of a person, esp. by physical punishment. 4 intr. & refl. sl. proceed by violent or painful effort. Phrases and idioms: flog a dead horse waste energy on something unalterable. flog to death colloq. talk about or promote at tedious length. Derivatives: flogger n. Etymology: 17th-c. cant: prob. imit. or f. L flagellare to whip

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flog Flog (fl[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flogged (fl[o^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flogging (-g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Scot. fleg blow, stroke, kick, AS. flocan to strike, or perh. fr. L. flagellare to whip. Cf. Flagellate.] To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(flogs, flogging, flogged) 1. If someone tries to flog something, they try to sell it. (BRIT INFORMAL) They are trying to flog their house. VERB: V n 2. If someone is flogged, they are hit very hard with a whip or stick as a punishment. In these places people starved, were flogged, were clubbed to death... Flog them soundly. VERB: be V-ed, V n • flogging (floggings) He was sentenced to a flogging and life imprisonment... N-VAR 3. If you say that someone is flogging a dead horse, you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible. (INFORMAL) PHRASE: V inflects

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Beat, lash, whip, thrash, drub, scourge, flagellate, castigate, chastise.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To whip.

Moby Thesaurus

baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, goad, hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, needle, nudge, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, promote, publicize, pummel, punish, rawhide, scourge, sell, smite, spank, spur, sting, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop