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# flogging

«flogging» in Mova's school dictionary: **A beating with a whip or stick as a punishment** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a flogging, floggings); also the -ing form of flog

### meaning for a pupil

1) A beating with a whip or stick as a punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#m1)

2) (informal) Selling something: «flogging old toys». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#m2)

3) (informal) A heavy defeat in sport: «They got a flogging». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history: «a public flogging» was a cruel punishment. In sport talk, especially in the UK, Australia and NZ, «a flogging» means a big loss. In informal talk, «flogging stuff» means selling it.

### examples

- Flogging was a common punishment on old ships. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#x1)
- (informal) Our team got a flogging, ten nil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#x2)
- He's been flogging cakes at the market all morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#x3)
- Public flogging is now banned in most countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#x4)
- The book described a cruel flogging. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#x5)
- (informal) That was a real flogging — we lost by fifty points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#x6)
- And as the picture made no reply, he tore it down from the wall, set it on a cart and drove it away, flogging it as he went, and crying-- [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/#x7)

### note

Countable noun. Double g. The punishment sense is serious and cruel; the sport and selling senses are informal.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flogging» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flogging/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.