MEANING
1. To beat or whip someone or something, especially with a scourge.
2. To criticize or reproach harshly, especially oneself.
3. A single-celled organism, especially a protist, bearing one or more flagella used in movement or feeding.
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Words that belong together
- flagellate a captive
- self-flagellation
On the page
The account said the captive had been flagellated before the hearing.
The novel depicted the ritual’s threat to flagellate dissenters without endorsing it.
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Word forms
- Base
- flagellate
- Past tense
- flagellated
- Past participle
- flagellated
- Present participle
- flagellating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- flagellate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are flagellating
- Present perfect
- have/has flagellated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been flagellating
- Past
- flagellated
- Past continuous
- was/were flagellating
- Past perfect
- had flagellated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been flagellating
- Future
- will flagellate
- Future continuous
- will be flagellating
- Future perfect
- will have flagellated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been flagellating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: flagellate; flagellates; flagellated; flagellated; flagellating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: flagellates.
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