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1.
To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
Source : opted (172948)  - auto
 
2.
To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
Source : opted (172949)  - auto
 
3.
To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
Source : opted (172950)  - auto
 
4.
To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
Source : opted (172951)  - auto
 
5.
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
Source : opted (172952)  - auto
 
6.
To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
Source : opted (172953)  - auto
 
7.
To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
Source : opted (172954)  - auto
 
8.
To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
Source : opted (172955)  - auto
 
9.
To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
Source : opted (172956)  - auto
 
10.
To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
Source : opted (172957)  - auto
 

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