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Definition: FLAGELLATING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To whale. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To slash. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To lace. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To belt. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To whip or flog.[Eve - graph theoretic]
6. Present participle conjugation of the verb flagellate.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(flagellate)
1. Whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves".[Wordnet].
2. To whip; to scourge; to flog.[Websters].
3. Base verb from the following inflections: flagellating, flagellated, flagellates, flagellator, flagellators, flagellatingly and flagellatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "Flagellating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references)

Definition: FLAGELLATING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To whale. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To slash. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To lace. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To belt. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To whip or flog.[Eve - graph theoretic]
6. Present participle conjugation of the verb flagellate.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(flagellate)
1. Whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves".[Wordnet].
2. To whip; to scourge; to flog.[Websters].
3. Base verb from the following inflections: flagellating, flagellated, flagellates, flagellator, flagellators, flagellatingly and flagellatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "FLAGELLATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references)

Specialty Definition: flagellate

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Verb] To whip; to scourge.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
AerospaceProtozoan that moves by means of one to several flagella. (references)
Wiktionary[Verb] To whip or scourge. (references)

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Common Expressions: flagellate

ExpressionsDefinition
Flagellate protozoanA usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Plantlike flagellateUnicellular organisms having many characteristics of typical algae. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Topics by Level of Interest: flagellate

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