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flailingverbpresent participle of flail to move or cause to move with a striking motionstarted to flail his arms wildly when he spied a bat in the house beating, flapping, flopping, fluttering, whipping banging, battering, buffeting, knocking, pounding, smacking, spanking, thumpingflickering, flicking, flittingfanning, oscillating, swaying, swingingundulating, wavingpalpitating, pulsing, throbbing to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexiblegruesome evidence that the prisoner had been flailed birching, cowhiding, flagellating, flogging, hiding, horsewhipping, lashing, leathering, rawhiding, scourging, slashing, switching, tanning, thrashing, whaling, whipping knouting, quirting, strappingcuttingflicking, touching upblackjacking, caning, clubbing, cudgeling(or cudgelling), fustigatingpistol-whippingbanging, bopping, boxing, busting, clapping, clipping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cuffing, hitting, knocking, lamming, pasting, punching, slapping, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, spanking, swatting, swiping, thwacking, walloping, whackingbashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging, drubbing, fibbing(British), hammering, lacing, lambasting, lathering, licking, mangling, mauling, paddling, pelting, pommeling(or pommelling), pounding, pummeling(also pummelling), roughing, slating, slogging, threshing, thumping, tromping, whopping(or whapping), whupping, working over in 1882 |