Thesaurus:whip
THESAURUS | whip |
English
Verb
(transitive)
Synonyms
- belt
- birch
- cut [⇒ thesaurus]
- feague (obsolete)
- flagellate
- flog
- knout
- lash
- lather
- quirt
- scourge
- scutch (obsolete, UK dialect)
- slash
- strap
- stripe
- thrash
- thresh (literary)
- whip
- whoop
- yark
Hyponyms
- bullwhip
- cowhide
- dogwhip (rare)
- hide
- horsewhip
- kurbash
- rawhide
- switch [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms
- attack [⇒ thesaurus]
- beat
- drive
- punish
Further reading
- “whip” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “whip”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.