(~s, ~ging, ~ged)
1.
If someone tries to ~ something, they try to sell it. (BRIT INFORMAL)
They are trying to ~ their house.
VERB: V n
2.
If someone is ~ged, they are hit very hard with a whip or stick as a punishment.
In these places people starved, were ~ged, were clubbed to death...
Flog them soundly.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
~ging (~gings)
He was sentenced to a ~ging and life imprisonment...
N-VAR
3.
If you say that someone is ~ging a dead horse, you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible. (INFORMAL)
PHRASE: V inflects