Synonyms and related words :
baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, goad, hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, needle, nudge, pistol-whip, poke, pommel, prick, prod, promote, publicize, pummel, punish, rawhide, scourge, sell, smite, spank, spur, sting, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop