Flogging vs Thrashing - What's the difference?
flogging | thrashing |
Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
action of the verb to thrash
a beating, especially a severe one
A heavy defeat
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(computing) excessive paging within virtual storage
(dance) slam dancing
As nouns the difference between flogging and thrashing
is that flogging is infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping while thrashing is action of the verb to thrash .As verbs the difference between flogging and thrashing
is that flogging is while thrashing is .flogging
English
(wikipedia flogging)Noun
(en noun)- What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging . Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.
Verb
(head)thrashing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Now Hodgson just has to work out a makeshift forward line against a Ukraine team who warmed up for Tuesday by doling out the obligatory thrashing to San Marino, knocking in four goals by half-time and another five in the second half.