From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flagellate \Flag"el*late\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Flagellated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flagellating}.] [L. flagellatus, p. p. of flagellare to scoure, fr. flagellum whip, dim. of flagrum whip, scoure; cf. fligere to strike. Cf. {Flall}.] To whip; to scourge; to flog.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flagellate \Fla*gel"late\, adjective
1. Flagelliform.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Flagellata.
3. Having a flagellum or flagella. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: having or resembling a flagellum or flagella [syn: {flagellated}, {whiplike}]
noun
1: usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some pathogens of humans and other animals [syn: {flagellate protozoan}, {flagellated protozoan}, {mastigophoran}, {mastigophore}]
verb
1: whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" [syn: {scourge}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagellate": baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lay on, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, rawhide, scourge, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop
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