[syn: flagellate, flagellated, whiplike, lash-like]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flagellate \Flag"el*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flagellated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Flagellating.] [L. flagellatus, p. p. of
flagellare to scoure, fr. flagellum whip, dim. of flagrum
whip, scoure; cf. fligere to strike. Cf. Flall.]
To whip; to scourge; to flog.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flagellate \Fla*gel"late\, a.
1. Flagelliform.
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2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Flagellata.
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3. Having a flagellum or flagella.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flagellate
adj 1: having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)
[syn: flagellate, flagellated, whiplike, lash-
like]
n 1: a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with
whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other
animals [syn: flagellate, flagellate protozoan,
flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore]
v 1: whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" [syn:
flagellate, scourge]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagellate":
baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club,
cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flail, flog, fustigate,
give a whipping, give the stick, hide, horsewhip, knout, lace,
larrup, lash, lay on, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, rawhide,
scourge, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash,
thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop