whipping
noun
1. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
Similar word(s): flagellation, flogging, lashing, tanning
Definition categories: act, beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking
2. a sound defeat
Similar word(s): debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping
Definition categories: event, defeat, licking
3. a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
Similar word(s): whipstitch, whipstitching
Definition categories: man–made
4. the act of overcoming or outdoing
Similar word(s): beating
verb
1. present participle of whip