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Definition: FLOGGED |
FLOGGEDImperative & past participle1. Of Flog |
Date "FLOGGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FLOGGED |
| English words defined with "FLOGGED": flog ♦ lash, lather ♦ slash, strap ♦ trounce ♦ welt, whip. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FLOGGED": Flogged by Deputy ♦ Kiss the Gunner's Daughter. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Johnson | Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Liberia | In July journalist Alphonso Toweh charged that police at the port of Monrovia flogged him when he tried to report on the sinking of a cargo ship in the harbor. (references) |
Human Rights | Iran | Authorities flogged the men with 70 to 80 lashes. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Persons convicted of political or religious crimes reportedly were flogged with a leather strap. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | After summary trials in April, 53 demonstrators, including women and children, were flogged, and some were imprisoned for up to 20 days. (references) |
Sudan | Government security forces regularly beat, severely flogged, harassed, arbitrarily arrested and detained, and kept in incommunicado detention opponents or suspected opponents of the Government. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FLOGGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 63.49% of the time. "FLOGGED" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 63.49% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 33.33% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "FLOGGED": be flogged. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flogged | 26 |
flogged woman | 10 |
flogged girl | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLOGGED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 鞭打 (flog). (various references) | |
German | peitschte (scourged), gepeitscht (lashed). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוכה (beaten, smitten, stricken, struck). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oggedflay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vapulus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FLOGGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fleged, flegged, floge, foggen, frogged. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-g-l-o" | |
-1 letter: dogleg, fodgel, fogged, golfed, logged. | |
-2 letters: defog, lodge, ogled. | |
-3 letters: delf, doge, dole, feod, fled, floe, flog, fold, geld, gled, gleg, gold, golf, lode, loge, ogle. | |
-4 letters: del, doe, dog, dol, egg, ego, eld, elf, fed, foe, fog, ged, gel, god, led, leg, log, ode, old, ole. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, ef, el, go, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-g-g-l-o" | |
+4 letters: footslogged, leapfrogged. | |
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