Synonyms of the word flail


FLAILBEAT - FLAP - IMPLEMENT - LAM - THRASH - THRESH

flail

  • n. A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece…
  • n. A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint…
  • v. (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
  • v. (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously.
  • v. (transitive) To thresh.
  • v. (intransitive) To move like a flail.

beat

  • n. A stroke; a blow.
  • n. A pulsation or throb.
  • n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
  • n. A rhythm.
  • n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
  • n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
  • n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
  • n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
  • n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
  • n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
  • n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
  • n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
  • n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
  • n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
  • v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
  • v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
  • v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  • v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
  • v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
  • v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
  • v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
  • v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
  • v. To tread, as a path.
  • v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  • v. To be in agitation or doubt.
  • v. To make a sound when struck.
  • v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
  • v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
  • v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
  • adj. (US slang) exhausted.
  • adj. dilapidated, beat up.
  • adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
  • adj. (slang) boring.
  • adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
  • n. A beatnik.

flap

  • n. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  • n. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  • n. A hinged leaf.
  • n. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
  • n. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy.
  • n. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  • n. A disease in the lips of horses.
  • n. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  • n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard…
  • n. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  • n. (slang, chiefly plural) The female genitals.
  • v. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
  • v. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
  • v. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as…

implement

  • n. A tool or instrument for working with.
  • v. to bring about; to put into practice.
  • v. to carry out; to do.

lam

  • n. Used in the expression on the lam to mean "on the run" (after the dated verb), when a person is fleeing…
  • v. (transitive) To beat or thrash.
  • v. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
  • n. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

thrash

  • v. To beat mercilessly.
  • v. To defeat utterly.
  • v. To thresh.
  • v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
  • v. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior…
  • v. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
  • n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
  • n. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical…

thresh

  • v. (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating,…
  • v. (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

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