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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals;
[syn: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore]


VERB (1)

1. whip;
- Example: "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
[syn: flagellate, scourge]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum);
[syn: flagellate, flagellated, whiplike, lash-like]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flagellate \Flag"el*late\, v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flagellate \Fla*gel"late\, a. 1. Flagelliform. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Flagellata. [1913 Webster] 3. Having a flagellum or flagella. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

flagellate adj 1: having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) [syn: flagellate, flagellated, whiplike, lash- like] n 1: a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals [syn: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore] v 1: whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" [syn: flagellate, scourge]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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