flog

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to flog (third-person singular simple present flogs, present participle flogging, simple past and past participle flogged)

  1. (transitive) To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
  2. (transitive, UK) To sell something.
  3. (transitive, Australian, New Zealand) To steal something.
  4. (transitive, Australian, New Zealand) To defeat.
  5. (transitive, agriculture) To exploit.
    • 2007 Feb 6, “Suppliers the losers in Coles-Woolworths war”, The Age:
      The environment is paying dearly as producers flog their land. Sustainable agriculture needs a new generation of energised science and technology-trained farmers

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German

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flog

  1. Past tense of fliegen

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flog n. (genitive singular flogs, plural flog)

  1. an epileptic fit

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