flagellating
present participle offlagellate
flagellate
verb[T]
formaluk/ˈflædʒ.ə.leɪt/us/ˈflædʒ.ə.leɪt/towhipyourself or someoneelse,especiallyas areligiousact
Punishing by causing pain
- birch
- caning
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- corporal punishment
- flagellate
- horsewhip
- lynch
- lynch law
- lynching
- mortification
- paddle
- smack
- spanking
- tar and feathersomeoneidiom
- thrash
- thrashing
- thumbscrew
- waterboard
- waterboarding
- whip
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Religious practices
Examplesofflagellating
flagellating
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 wereflagellatingthemselves till their backs streamed with blood.
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He does not find the spiritual peace he sought even though he follows a strict regimen of ascetic piety to the point offlagellatinghimself half to death.
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