Thesaurus:whip

Thesaurus

whip

English

Verb

(transitive)

Sense: beating the human body with special implements

Synonyms

• belt
• birch
• cut    [⇒ thesaurus]
• feague (obsolete)
• flagellate
• flog
• knout
• lash
• lather
• quirt
• scourge
• scutch (obsolete, UK dialect)
• slash
• strap
• stripe
• thrash
• thresh (literary)
• whip
• whoop
• yark

Hyponyms

• bullwhip
• cowhide
• dogwhip (rare)
• hide
• horsewhip
• kurbash
• rawhide
• switch    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• attack    [⇒ thesaurus]
• beat
• drive
• punish

Further reading

• “whip” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “whip”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.