Meaning

17 senses
  1. (transitive)To hit with a whip.

    The rider whipped the horse.

    auspeitschen, geißeln, peitschen

    бичева́тьbičevátʹ, бить пле́тьюbitʹ plétʹju, поро́тьporótʹ

    бато́житиbatóžyty, лупцюва́тиlupcjuváty, поро́тиporóty

    whip with or as if with a wire whisk

  2. (broadly, transitive)To hit with any flexible object.

    I whipped her with a newspaper.

    peitschen

  3. (slang, transitive)To defeat, as in a contest or game.

    schlagen

    defeat thoroughly

  4. (transitive)To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.

    to whip eggs or cream

    schlagen

  5. (transitive)To urge into action or obedience.

    He whipped the department into shape.

    anpeitschen

  6. (transitive)To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.

  7. (transitive)To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.

    1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises Its string […] is firmly whipt about with small Gut

  8. (transitive)To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

  9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.

    to whip a ruffle

  10. (transitive)To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.

    He whipped the ball at me.

  11. (ambitransitive)To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.

  12. (intransitive)To snap back and forth like a whip.

    The pennants whipped in the wind.

Examples

136 sentences
  1. There's plenty of whipped cream left in the bowl.

    В банці лишалося багато збитих вершків.

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  2. Where's the whipped cream?

    Де збиті вершки?

    ruГде взбитые сливки?

    deWo ist die Schlagsahne?

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  3. They made a whip out of cords.

    ruИз верёвок они сделали кнут.

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  4. Tom is as smart as a whip.

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  5. I'm sure you'll whip us up something really good.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to hit with a whip:
Русский
By meaning 1
to hit with a whip:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to hit with a whip:
to defeat:
to urge into action:

Origin

From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to s

From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wippōną (“to move back and forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to shake; to swing”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)).

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Forms

whips, whipping, whipped, whipped
Base formwhip · to whip
3rd person singularwhips
Present participlewhipping
Past simplewhipped
Past participlewhipped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywhip
he, she, itwhips

Past simpleLesson

all personswhipped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave whipped
he, she, ithas whipped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill whip

Phrasal verbs

6 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

69 synonyms
to move very fast:flail
Close in meaning

Word family

24 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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