whip
/ˈwɪp/ verb B2- To hit with a whip. · The rider whipped the horse.
- To hit with any flexible object. · I whipped her with a newspaper.
- To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food. · to whip eggs or cream
- To urge into action or obedience. · He whipped the department into shape.
- To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling. · 1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises Its string […] is firmly whipt about with small Gut
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
He/she/it whips · Past whipped · Past participle whipped · -ing form whipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- whip
- He/she/it
- whips
- Past
- whipped
- Past participle
- whipped
- -ing form
- whipping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- whip down To rain heavily.
- whip in To prevent hunting hounds from straying from the pack by ...
- whip off To remove something (especially an item of clothing) with...
- whip out To pull something out with a sudden jerk.
- whip through To do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.
- whip up To produce (something) quickly, especially food.
From the library
Marilla made no reply, but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare, unused to such treatment, whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace.
See if I do not prick your neck with my sting.” The Draught-Mule replied, “I do not heed your threats; I only care for him who sits above you, and who quickens my pace with his whip, or holds me back with the reins.
Crack goes the whip, and off we go;
Then, commencing a loud whistling noise, he rubbed them well all over their bodies for several minutes; then, undisturbed by the noisy crowd collected round the broken carriage, Ali quietly harnessed the pacified animals to the count’s chariot, took the reins in his hands, and mounted the box, when to the utter astonishment of those who had witnessed the ungovernable spirit and maddened speed of the same horses, he was actually compelled to apply his whip in no very gentle manner before he could induce them to start; and even then all that could be obtained from the celebrated “dappled grays,” now changed into a couple of dull, sluggish, stupid brutes, was a slow, pottering pace, kept up with so much difficulty that Madame de Villefort was more than two hours returning to her residence in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
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