"flog" | Definition and Related Words

Verb

Beat severely with a whip or rod (synset 201413739)
"The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"

is a type of: beat, beat up, work over - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
subtypes:
- flagellate, scourge - whip
- leather - whip with a leather strap
- horsewhip - whip with a whip intended for horses
- switch - flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- cowhide - flog with a cowhide
- cat - beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
- birch - whip with a birch twig
same as: lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip
Beat with a cane (synset 201414858)
is a type of: beat, beat up, work over - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

same as: cane, lambast, lambaste