Word Meanings - FLAGELLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To whip; to scourge; to flog. (more info) fr. flagellum whip, dim. of flagrum whip, scoure; cf. fligere to

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLAGELLATE)

• Castigate
• Whip
• flagellate
• cane

Related words: (words related to FLAGELLATE)

• FLAGELLATE
  To whip; to scourge; to flog. (more info) fr. flagellum whip, dim. of flagrum whip, scoure; cf. fligere to
• CASTIGATE
  punish; castus pure, chaste + agere to move, drive. See Caste, and 1. To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely. 2. To emend; to correct.
• UNIFLAGELLATE
  Having but one flagellum; as, uniflagellate organisms.
• BIFLAGELLATE
  Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.