Verb

(flogg)

To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.

To use something to extreme; to abuse.

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, title=VL idles rough when warm... , group=aus.cars , author=Chris Wardrop , date=October 30 , year=2002 , passage=I did seven laps of Fyshwick with the mechanic today. I was turning lots of heads on the last few, people must of thought I was nuts, flogging' the car then stopping, then driving slow then ' flogging it again. citation

(UK) To sell something.

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, title=Optus $5/month 5110, T10 and 2288 only 4 days , group=aus.comms.mobile , author=Paul Edwards , date=January 26 , year=2001 , passage=And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging' their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job ' flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month. citation

(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.

(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.

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, title=Nothing to Crow About , group=rec.sport.football.australian , author=Mr Ripper , date=August 16 , year=1999 , passage=The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond. citation

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, title=Eng v Aus 1977 , group=aus.sport.cricket , author=Cas. , date=June 9 , year=2001 , passage=Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test. citation

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, title=POLISER- Roosters v Bulldogs , group=aus.sport.rugby-league , author=Greg Vincent }:c{ , date=June 5 , year=2004 , passage=It'll make the Raiders look good.  Getting flogged' by a team that got '''flogged''' by a team that got ' flogged by the Bulldogs. citation

(agriculture) To exploit.

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Verb

(archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.

(archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) IX:

All that herde hym wer amased and sayde: ys nott this he that spoylled them whych called on this name in Jerusalem?

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VII:

To do her dye (quoth Vna) were despight, / And shame t'auenge so weake an enimy; / But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.

*, I.2.4.vii:

Roger, that rich Bishop of Salisbury,through grief ran mad, spoke and did he knew not what.

(ambitransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil .

(obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.

* (Bible), (w) iii. 27

No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man.

To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.

* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)

Spiritual pride spoils many graces.

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"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. […]"

* 2011 , ‘What the Arab papers say’, The Economist , 5 Aug 2011:

‘This is a great day for us. Let us not spoil it by saying the wrong thing, by promoting a culture of revenge, or by failing to treat the former president with respect.’

To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.

Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.

Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil .

To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

* 2003 , David Nicoll, The Guardian , letter:

Dr Jonathan Grant (Letters, April 22) feels the best way to show his disaffection with political parties over Iraq is to spoil his ballot paper.

To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.