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azotar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • flog verb To whip or beat someone as a punishment.
  • slam verb To shut something with sudden force and a loud noise.
  • spank verb To strike someone, usually a child, on the buttocks with an open hand as punishment.
  • thresh verb To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
  • thump noun A heavy blow, or the dull sound it makes.
  • whip noun A flexible rod or braided cord, often of leather, used to strike an animal or person, or to make a sharp cracking noise.

Senses

azotar is used for these senses in English:

  • flog (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
  • slam (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
  • slam (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
  • slam (ambitransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
  • spank (transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
  • thresh (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
  • whip (transitive) To hit with a whip.

flog — full definition

  1. verb To whip or beat someone as a punishment.
  2. verb To sell something, especially informally or cheaply.
  3. verb To use or promote something relentlessly.

slam — full definition

  1. verb To shut something with sudden force and a loud noise.
  2. verb To criticise someone or something harshly.
  3. noun A sudden loud impact or forceful closing.
  4. noun (bridge) A bid to win all or nearly all the tricks in a hand.

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