flailed
Meaning of flailed
verb, past tense
- wave or swing wildly.
his arms flailed as he sought to maintain his balance
- beat or flog (someone).
he escorted them, flailing their shoulders with his cane
Old English, of West Germanic origin, based on Latin flagellum ‘whip’ (see flagellum); probably influenced in Middle English by Old French flaiel or Dutch vlegel .
Information about flailed
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Hyphenation of flailed
flailed
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- flailed is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
flailed synonyms
Meaning move one's hand to and fro in greeting or as a signal:
Meaning move or cause to move back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis:
Meaning (with reference to a person's arms) move or be moved round in a circle in a manner suggestive of the rotating sails or vanes of a windmill:
Meaning beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip:
Meaning strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip:
Meaning hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand or a weapon or other implement:
Meaning strike repeatedly with hard blows:
Meaning hit or beat (someone) repeatedly:
Meaning beat (someone) with a whip or stick as a punishment:
Meaning beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on:
Meaning strike or beat with a whip or stick:
Meaning whip (someone) as a punishment:
Meaning strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass):
Meaning flog (someone), either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification:
Meaning fasten or secure in a specified place or position with a strap:
Meaning change the position, direction, or focus of:
Meaning beat (someone) repeatedly as a punishment:
Meaning beat with a cane as a punishment:
Meaning hit (someone or something) hard:
Meaning provide with a welt:
Meaning strike or hit very hard:
Meaning strike forcefully with a sharp blow:
Meaning hit hard; strike:
Meaning thrash or whip (a person or animal):
Words that rhyme with flailed
ailed, airmailed, assailed, aumailed, availed, bailed, bangtailed, bewailed, blackmailed, bobtailed, brailed, camailed, coattailed, cocktailed, copperytailed, countervailed, culvertailed, curtailed, daggletailed, derailed, detailed, disentailed, disentrailed, dovetailed, drabbletailed, draggletailed, drailed, emailed, embailed, engrailed, entailed, entrailed, failed, fantailed, fishtailed, forhailed, foxtailed, greenmailed, hailed, hightailed, hobnailed, immailed, interrailed, jailed, mailed, nailed, nondetailed, nonentailed, outsailed, overdetailed
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