FLOG


Meaning of FLOG in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ flɒg ]

( flogs, flogging, flogged)

1.

If someone tries to flog something, they try to sell it. ( BRIT INFORMAL )

They are trying to flog their house.

VERB : V n

2.

If someone is flogged , they are hit very hard with a whip or stick as a punishment.

In these places people starved, were flogged, were clubbed to death...

Flog them soundly.

VERB : be V-ed , V n

• flog‧ging

(floggings)

He was sentenced to a flogging and life imprisonment...

N-VAR

3.

If you say that someone is flogging a dead horse , you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible. ( INFORMAL )

PHRASE : V inflects

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