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flailing
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Verb
Present participle for to lash or strike repeatedly, especially with a long pliable instrument
Present participle for to swing or wave wildly
Present participle for to flounder or struggle about, typically to no avail
Present participle for to move or jolt around unsteadily or abruptly
Noun
A beating consisting of lashes, such as a whipping or scourging
An act of flapping or waving, usually quickly and irregularly
Adjective
Characterized by a tendency to flutter
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▲
Verb
▲
Present participle for to lash or strike repeatedly, especially with a long pliable instrument
flogging
whipping
thrashing
lashing
tanning
birching
beating
whaling
switching
scourging
flagellating
battering
hiding
wallopping
walloping
striking
hitting
leathering
bashing
horsewhipping
pummelling
UK
pummeling
drubbing
caning
clubbing
slashing
smacking
knocking
cowhiding
strapping
threshing
rawhiding
whacking
clouting
thwacking
flaying
socking
larruping
larrupping
slugging
welting
lamming
smashing
maltreating
belaboring
US
belabouring
UK
giving someone a hiding
beating the living daylights out of
giving someone a good hiding
lambasting
belting
pelting
pounding
lathering
batting
hammering
licking
bludgeoning
slogging
thumping
lacing
buffeting
buffetting
paddling
slating
pommelling
pommeling
basting
spanking
mauling
whopping
whapping
whupping
tromping
punishing
working over
fibbing
currying
punching
bunging up
roughing up
slapping
clobbering
punching out
messing up
pasting
rapping
boxing
banging
striping
swatting
bruising
cudgelling
UK
cudgeling
US
doing
smiting
chastising
trouncing
breaking
biffing
cuffing
whomping
bopping
cracking
waxing
assaulting
tanning one's hide
raining blows on
letting someone have it
laying one on
knocking around
bullwhipping
castigating
quirting
clipping
slamming
feruling
swiping
busting
decking
tanning someone's hide
clocking
nailing
popping
taking a strap to
trashing
bonking
jabbing
bobbing
zapping
clapping
chinning
tagging
ramming
lacerating
tonking
tapping
mashing
mutilating
knocking into the middle of next week
laying into
knocking about
KO'ing
pitching
fluttering
flapping
flopping
hitting repeatedly
scathing
excoriating
harassing
abusing
attacking
assailing
crushing
hooking
drumming
plugging
bumping
manhandling
sucker-punching
doing over
filling in
breaking face
leaning on
putting in the hospital
taking care of
beating up
crowning
flooring
hitting hard
punishing severely
giving the cat o'nine tails
sloshing
quilting
blasting
uppercutting
percussing
dotting
donging
stoning
dabbing
blitzing
swinging
kicking
braining
whanging
pelleting
dinging
boffing
lobbing
giving a black eye
pitching into
knocking out
sticking one on
giving someone a drubbing
letting fly
lacing to
giving someone a beating
giving someone a good drubbing
zonking
riding roughshod
giving someone a good beating
paddlewhacking
injuring
warming someone's seat
dusting someone's britches
wounding
damaging
harming
impairing
disabling
grazing
gashing
incapacitating
causing pain to
scratching
mangling
causing injury to
totalling
maiming
pinching
hurting
pulverizing
US
banging up
pulverising
UK
scraping
totaling
cutting
putting out
thudding
lighting to
whamming
beating up on
crashing
blowing
driving
skelping
dashing
thrusting
chopping
poking
defeating
butting
crashing against
beating against
dashing against
stabbing
shoving
pushing
prodding
drawing
forging
routing
overwhelming
impacting
slaughtering
annihilating
colliding
conking
besting
coshing
propelling
marmalizing
creaming
burying
scudding
demolishing
destroying
massacring
worsting
flattening
murdering
smoking
impelling
beating to a pulp
tearing into
aiming blows at
shellacking
crucifying
rolling
tanking
smothering
weighing into
blipping
twacking
fustigating
skunking
owning
bombing
dusting
bashing up
giving someone a hot bottom
putting over one's knee
boxing someone's ears
killing
chastening
winning a resounding victory over
walking all over
running rings around
taking to the cleaners
bringing someone to their knees
turning inside out
striking down
walking over
cracking against
blowing away
wiping the floor with
blowing out of the water
cracking into
beating hollow
defeating utterly
getting the better of
triumphing over
blowing out
making mincemeat of
snowing under
taking a stick to
hacking
stroking
filliping
blistering
handling
bunting
thumping on
knocking on
bearing down
shaking
jerking
whisking
mistreating
chipping
sinking
bamming
bushwhacking
pulping
duking
plumping
picking
wearing out
brutalizing
US
contusing
roughhousing
plunging
brutalising
UK
taking out
planting one
slippering
tupping
headbutting
bucking
duffing up
impinging
clumping
bombarding
elbowing
patting
sending
raining blows upon
afflicting
landing a punch
blackjacking
hanging one on
contacting
screwing
digging
jogging
stunning
concussing
skulling
striking with a stick
beating with a stick
laying a finger on
clonking
beaning
catching
setting upon
setting about
hitting on the head
hitting over the head
giving someone a licking
trimming
putting someone over your knee
running
having a go at
sailing into
getting stuck into
beating someone's brains out
knocking someone's lights out
smacking against
connecting with
bumping into
crashing into
horning
sticking
jackhammering
malleating
setting on
more ❯
“He would wake at midnight and
flail
himself with a spiked rope and was often found raptured in prayer.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to swing or wave wildly
fluttering
flapping
waving
swinging
beating
flopping
whipping
windmilling
whirling
beating about
flapping about
moving erratically
thrashing about
quivering
threshing
shaking
wagging
rippling
undulating
oscillating
trembling
blowing
thrashing
swaying
stirring
flying
waggling
swishing
vibrating
wobbling
wavering
moving to and fro
agitating
wiggling
moving
flitting
pulsating
ruffling
palpitating
sweeping
wafting
quavering
reeling
moving up and down
streaming
dangling
twitching
shivering
fluctuating
billowing
swirling
twirling
rocking
floating
twisting
flicking
vacillating
pulsing
flowing
wigwagging
seesawing
rising and falling
flickering
batting
swelling
surging
drifting
brandishing
jerking
tossing
hanging
waving rapidly
flourishing
wielding
swiping
flaunting
curling
catching the wind
ebbing and flowing
motioning
lurching
pitching
rolling
swinging backwards and forwards
swinging back and forth
swinging to and fro
swinging from side to side
moving from side to side
shuddering
quaking
jiggling
joggling
wabbling
convulsing
juddering
tremoring
jolting
shimmying
jouncing
flittering
twittering
dithering
heaving
bucketing
jittering
writhing
bobbling
jarring
tottering
squirming
wriggling
rustling
dancing
fidgeting
fidgetting
throbbing
darting
jigging
faltering
squiggling
thrilling
fiddling
worming
zigzagging
staggering
raising
waving to and fro
flirting
weaving
leaping
having the shakes
doddering
zipping
teetering
snapping
spasming
gyrating
switching
quailing
hovering
gliding
bustling
trilling
moving slightly
quaving
warbling
flailing about
displaying
lashing
fish-tailing
shaking like a leaf
quaking in your boots
shaking in your boots
moving side to side
vaunting
having the quivers
moving back and forth
moving backwards and forwards
whiffling
clapping
putting in motion
jogging
stirring up
commoving
setting in motion
churning
bumping
succussing
playing
stumbling
changing
shifting
careening
shooting
running over
licking
playing over
varying
waddling
alternating
veering
bobbing up and down
altering
clicking
mutating
toddling
cracking
toppling
differing
stotting
walking unsteadily
trembling precariously
see-sawing
crackling
coming and going
going up and down
yo-yoing
popping
more ❯
“He began to
flail
his arms wildly before I quickly pinned his arms down so that he wouldn't hurt himself or me anymore.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to flounder or struggle about, typically to no avail
writhing
squirming
twisting
thrashing
threshing
wriggling
twitching
struggling
wiggling
floundering
fumbling
splashing
blundering
stumbling
jerking
tossing
jiggling
fidgeting
fidgetting
jigging
squiggling
fiddling
tossing and turning
convulsing
twisting and turning
agonizing
US
worming
contorting
turning
agonising
UK
thrashing about
heaving
plunging
wagging
waggling
zigzagging
jactitating
rolling
jolting
lurching
groping
wincing
recoiling
tumbling
pitching
staggering
flapping
casting about
shifting
winding
skewing
sliding
slithering
quivering
shaking
wobbling
joggling
vibrating
fluttering
shuddering
trembling
agitating
stirring
quaking
jouncing
juddering
wabbling
moving restlessly
waving
bobbling
jumping
shimmying
twerking
rocking
moving
palpitating
shivering
shuffling
jittering
moving spasmodically
moving about
moving around
working
rattling
laboring
US
labouring
UK
rustling
swishing
budging
locomoting
wallowing
moving slightly
dithering
throbbing
pulsing
pulsating
flailing about
dancing
swinging
swaying
bucketing
beating
disturbing
lying
wading
quavering
spasming
shaking uncontrollably
ticcing
twinging
vellicating
lugging
snapping
kicking
twingeing
contracting
shaking up
suffering a fit
going into spasms
weltering
shaking violently
moving convulsively
intorting
more ❯
“In the unforgiving world of nature, an organism spending energy to
flail
helplessly in the water would have no advantage over the organism floating serenely beside it.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move or jolt around unsteadily or abruptly
tossing
rolling
pitching
lurching
swaying
rocking
reeling
wobbling
seesawing
careening
wabbling
listing
plunging
undulating
keeling
floundering
heaving
jouncing
laboring
US
labouring
UK
tumbling
jogging
swinging
pitchpoling
jiggling
jolting
oscillating
shaking
wagging
jerking
pumping
veering
agitating
joggling
bouncing
skipping
bobbling
hopping
waving
dancing
chucking
ditching
dumping
bobbing
buffeting
buffetting
moving up and down
jumping around
tossing around
letting fly
rising and falling
Noun
▲
A beating consisting of lashes, such as a whipping or scourging
flagellation
lashing
whipping
flogging
beating
thrashing
flaying
scourging
belting
caning
strapping
welting
birching
horsewhipping
switching
tanning
punishment
spanking
hiding
trouncing
pasting
drubbing
walloping
bashing
hammering
pounding
thumping
slapping
clobbering
licking
battering
mauling
pummelling
UK
smacking
thwacking
cuffing
whacking
pelting
bopping
biffing
pummeled
US
punching
buffeting
slugging
lambasting
cudgelling
UK
clubbing
lathering
shellacking
doing-over
beating-up
duffing-up
working-over
cudgeling
US
assault
knocking
corporal punishment
bludgeoning
boxing
leathering
striking
attack
rout
birch
cane
kicking
whaling
larruping
plastering
whopping
the strap
whupping
bullwhipping
belt
strap
going-over
smack
thump
whack
wallop
spank
violence
aggression
harm
pummeling
offense
US
offence
UK
abuse
defeat
impugnment
vilification
assaulting
jumping
violation
totaling
US
battery
oppression
mugging
paddling
loss
scourge
lash
switch
denigration
threshing
rape
overthrow
hurt
strike
harassment
molesting
doing over
dirty deed
beating up
lump
rough handling
physical attack
physical violence
physical assault
roughing up
sexual interference
sexual assault
violent act
totalling
UK
sexual misconduct
trimming
act of violence
grievous bodily harm
act of aggression
actual bodily harm
rod
the lash
the cane
the birch
hitting
chastisement
more ❯
Noun
▲
An act of flapping or waving, usually quickly and irregularly
flutter
flapping
rippling
waving
flap
fluttering
quivering
twitching
flicker
wagging
bat
beating
flitter
quiver
shaking
undulation
vibrating
vibration
oscillation
thrashing
threshing
agitation
pulsation
quake
beat
swinging
shake
wave
flail
swish
wag
Adjective
▲
Characterized by a tendency to flutter
fluttery
flickery
flittery
quivering
quivery
darting
flapping
flitting
palpitating
quaverous
quavery
trembly
twitching
wiggly
agitating
beating
flicking
flitty
palpitant
pulsating
quavering
shivering
shivery
vibratory
waggish
wiggling
wobbling
wobbly
flopping
ruffly
thrashing
threshing
fluttering
whirling
tumbling
whipping
blowing
whisking
lashing
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