whippings
Strikes with cords
Whippings are beatings administered with a whip, rod, or similar instrument, historically used as punishment or torture.
The term extends to any severe defeat or thrashing: The team took a whipping in the playoffs.
In cooking, whipping refers to the vigorous beating of ingredients like cream or eggs to incorporate air and increase volume.
Beating as punishment
- lashingBeating or binding
- beatingRepeated striking or pulsing
- caningStriking with a rod
- strappingMuscular and hale
birching · spanking · thrashing · flagellation · scourging · discipline · corporal · switches
Decisive, lopsided defeat
- trouncingOverwhelming defeat
- drubbingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
shellacking · demolishing · blowout · humiliation · domination · annihilation · massacre · pummeling
flogging
Beating as punishment
strapping · birching · spanking · thrashing · flagellation · scourging · discipline · corporal · switches · welts
thrashing
Decisive, lopsided defeat
rout · shellacking · demolishing · blowout · humiliation · domination · annihilation · massacre · pummeling · walloping
beating
Repeated striking or pulsing
cream · eggs · meringue · peaks · stiff · fluffy · batter · mousse · frosting · blending
- Antebellum Southplantation, cotton kingdom, overseer, slave quarters, big house
- thrashingsbeatings, drubbings, thrashings, floggings, lickings
- riggingbackstay, backstays, shackle, pulley, blocks
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, slave, enslavement, slave traders
- Slavery EscapeUnderground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, runaways, fugitives
whippingsrewards
Benefits given for merit
praise · positive reinforcement · encouragement · commendations · leniency
- whipping upMaking something quickly
- whipping creamHigh-fat dairy for aerating
- whipping outProducing something swiftly
- whipping boyDesignated recipient of punishment
- whipping postPost for binding during lashing
- whipping offRemoving with speed