| 词汇 | flagellating |
| 释义 | flagellating present participle offlagellate flagellate verb[ T ] formaluk /ˈflædʒ.ə.leɪt/ us /ˈflædʒ.ə.leɪt/ to whip yourself or someone else, especially as a religious act鞭笞（尤作为宗教行为） Punishing by causing pain birch cane caning cat-o'-nine-tails corporal punishment flagellate lynch lynch law lynching mortification mortification of the fleshidiom paddle smack spanking the third degreeidiom thrashing thumbscrew waterboard waterboarding whip You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Religious practices Related wordflagellation Examples of flagellatingflagellating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Sometimes these flagellations took place in public, and priests headed processions throughout the streets of persons who were flagellating themselves till their backs streamed with blood. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He does not find the spiritual peace he sought even though he follows a strict regimen of ascetic piety to the point of flagellating himself half to death. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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