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flag waving |
flag-waver |
flag-waving |
flagellant |
flagellata |
flagellate
| flagellate protozoan
| flagellated
| flagellated cell
| flagellated protozoan
| flagellation
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flagellate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flagellate has 1 sense
- flagellate(n = noun.animal) flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore - a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals; Array is a kind of protozoan, protozoon
is a member of class flagellata, class mastigophora, flagellata, mastigophora
has particulars: dinoflagellate, genus leishmania, leishmania, zooflagellate, zoomastigote, hypermastigote, polymastigote, costia, costia necatrix, giardia, trichomonad
Derived forms adjective flagellate1, noun flagellum2
Verb flagellate has 1 sense
- flagellate(v = verb.contact) scourge - whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" is one way to flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip
Derived forms noun flagellant2, noun flagellant1, noun flagellation2, noun flagellum1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Adjective flagellate has 1 sense
- flagellate(a = adj.pert) flagellated, lash-like, whiplike - having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum); Array Derived form noun flagellate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
flagellate, v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]
flagellate, a.
- Flagelliform. [1913 Webster]
- Of or pertaining to the Flagellata. [1913 Webster]
- Having a flagellum or flagella. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flagellate, v.tr. scourge, flog (cf. FLAGELLANT).
Derivative
flagellation n. flagellator n. flagellatory adj.
flagellate, adj. & n.
--adj. having flagella (see FLAGELLUM).
--n. a protozoan having one or more flagella.
--adj. having flagella (see FLAGELLUM).
--n. a protozoan having one or more flagella.
THESAURUS
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, whopROGET THESAURUS
flagellate
Punishment
VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.
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