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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whip \Whip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Whipping}.] [OE. whippen to overlay, as a cord, with other
     cords, probably akin to G. & D. wippen to shake, to move up
     and down, Sw. vippa, Dan. vippe to swing to and fro, to
     shake, to toss up, and L. vibrare to shake. Cf. {Vibrate}.]
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     1. To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender
        and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a
        carpet.
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     2. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to
        rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
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     3. To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat;
        as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine
        lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
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              Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     4. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with
        sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
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              They would whip me with their fine wits. --Shak.
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     5. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip
        wheat.
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     6. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a
        whisk, fork, or the like.
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     7. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat;
        to surpass. [Slang, U. S.]
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     8. To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords
        going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a
        seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
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              Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.
                                                    --Moxon.
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     9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into
        gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing
        up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
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              In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie. --Gay.
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     10. To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch;
         -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
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               She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her
               arm.                                 --L'Estrange.
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               He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and
               writes descriptions of everything he sees.
                                                    --Walpole.
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     11. (Naut.)
         (a) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
         (b) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from
             untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
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     12. To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly,
         the motion being that employed in using a whip.
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               Whipping their rough surface for a trout.
                                                    --Emerson.
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     {To whip in}, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds
        in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as
        member of a party, or the like.
  
     {To whip the cat}.
         (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby.
         (b) To go from house to house working by the day, as
             itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whipped
       See {whip}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whip
       n 1: an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used
            for whipping
       2: a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline
          [syn: {party whip}]
       3: a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or
          cream and usually flavored with fruit
       4: (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club
       5: a quick blow with a whip [syn: {lash}, {whiplash}]
       v 1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
            the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
            [syn: {flog}, {welt}, {lather}, {lash}, {slash}, {strap},
             {trounce}]
       2: defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his
          opponents" [syn: {worst}, {pip}, {mop up}, {rack up}]
       3: thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash; "The tall
          grass whipped in the wind"
       4: strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face"
          [syn: {lash}]
       5: whip with or as if with a wire whisk; "whisk the eggs" [syn:
           {whisk}]
       6: subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the
          administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor
          scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the
          community" [syn: {blister}, {scald}]
       [also: {whipping}, {whipped}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "whipped":
     all up with, beat, beaten, bested, blebby, blistered, blistering,
     blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, carbonated, chiffon,
     confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down,
     ebullient, effervescent, fallen, fixed, fizzy, floored,
     hors de combat, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone,
     overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered,
     overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, puffed,
     put to rout, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned,
     skinned alive, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent,
     stampeded, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, vesicant, vesicated,
     vesicatory, vesicular, whelmed, worsted
  
  

















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