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4 definitions found for fustigate
fustigate v 1: strike with a cudgel [syn: cudgel, fustigate]
fustigate transitive verb (-gated; -gating) Etymology: Late Latin fustigatus, past participle of fustigare, from Latin fustis + -igare (as in fumigare to fumigate) Date: circa 1661 1. cudgel 2. to criticize severely • fustigation noun
Fustigate Fus"ti*gate, v. t. [L. fustigare, fr. fustis stick. See 1st Fust.] To cudgel. [R.] --Bailey.
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "fustigate": assail, attack, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blister, buffet, cane, castigate, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, excoriate, flagellate, flail, flay, flog, give a whipping, give the stick, horsewhip, knout, lace, lash, lay on, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, rawhide, roast, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, skin alive, slash, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop |
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