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flagellate

/'flædʒə,leɪt/

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verb
whip
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"The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"

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scourge

type of:
flog lash lather slash strap trounce welt whip
noun
a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
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flagellate protozoan flagellated protozoan mastigophoran mastigophore

type of:
protozoon protozoan
adjective
having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)
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flagellated lash-like whiplike

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