whipping
/ˈwɪpɪŋ/
whipping noun: the punishment of being whipped. Also the present participle and gerund of whip.
Noun
whipping (countable and uncountable, plural whippings)
- The punishment of being whipped.
- A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
- A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream to produce whipped cream.
- A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
- The lashing of the end of a rope.
- Never cut a line or leave the end of a line dangling loose without a whipping to prevent it from unlaying. A line without a whipping will unlay of its own accord. A frayed line is a painful sight to a good seaman. Whenever a line or hawser has to be cut, whippings should be put on first. Put one...1999, Marine Crewman's Handbook: Field Manual 55-501, US Dept of the Army
- The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.
- Synonyms:
- whipstitching
Also used as
whipping is also the present participle and gerund of whip.
whipping meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu
whipping in Hindi
- कोड़ा मारना, चाबुक मारना
whipping in Marathi
- चाबूक मारणे
whipping in Urdu
- کوڑے مارنا
whipping in Telugu
- కొరడాతో కొట్టడం
More languagesFewer languages
- whipping in Gujarati
- ચાબુક મારવી, ચાબૂક મારવી
Examples of whipping in a sentence
- As the whipping boy, he must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat.
- I stumbled blindly through the forest, branches whipping at my face.
- The game includes a bunch of chimeras, with the lion heads shooting fire and the snake tails whipping around trying to bite the player.
Synonyms of whipping
Forms of whipping
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Words formed from whipping
Phrases with whipping
- whipping in
- whipping up
- whipping off
- whipping out
- whipping boys
- whipping down
- pussy whipping
- whipping frogs
- whipping girls
- whipping it on
- whipping posts
- whipping sides
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Words that rhyme with whipping
Questions about whipping
- What does whipping mean?
- Whipping means the punishment of being whipped.
- What is whipping in Hindi?
- Whipping in Hindi is कोड़ा मारना, चाबुक मारना. See Whipping meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is whipping?
- Whipping is a noun.
- How do you pronounce whipping?
- Whipping is pronounced /ˈwɪpɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of whipping?
- The plural of whipping is whippings.
Words near whipping in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: whipping (page history and authors); whipping (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whipping (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whipping (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whipping (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whipping (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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