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What does fustigate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fustigate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To hit someone with a club.
  2. (figuratively) To harshly criticize someone.
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Whiteman evokes the corporeal nature of plantation authority, since the elided middle term between obfuscate and obfusticate seems to be fustigate.
Homer's no boxer. He's just a freak. Tatum will fustigate him.
Whereupon these serpent-haired she-dogs fasten on her, tatter her, shamefully fustigate her, in their shameful way, almost to fling her into the ponds, had not help intervened.
The director claims ignorance of a world in which the common man and cultural elite alike come together to nitpick and fustigate every movie that hits theaters.
My idea, when I write a book, is to wake up someone, to fustigate him given that the books I have written arose from my malaises, not to mention my sufferings.
As far as this issue is concerned, I am not among those who fustigate the African Forces' actions in Sudan.

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