English

Verb

1. To hit someone with a club.
2. To harshly criticize someone.

assail, attack, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blister, buffet, cane, castigate, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, excoriate, flagellate, flail, flay, flog, give a whipping, give the stick, horsewhip, knout, lace, lash, lay on, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, rawhide, roast, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, skin alive, slash, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop