whip
verb/wɪp/
/wɪp/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they whip | /wɪp/ /wɪp/ |
| he / she / it whips | /wɪps/ /wɪps/ |
| past simple whipped | /wɪpt/ /wɪpt/ |
| past participle whipped | /wɪpt/ /wɪpt/ |
| -ing form whipping | /ˈwɪpɪŋ/ /ˈwɪpɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] whip somebody/something to hit a person or an animal hard with a whip, as a punishment or to make them go faster or work harder
- He was taken back to the jail and soundly whipped.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- soundly
- [intransitive, transitive] to move, or make something move, quickly and suddenly or violently in a particular direction
- + adv./prep. A branch whipped across the car window.
- Her hair whipped around her face in the wind.
- whip something The waves were being whipped by 50 mile an hour winds.
Extra Examples- At the sound of his name, he whipped round and glared at us.
- The wind whipped across the moors.
- The wind whipped her hair around her face.
- [transitive] whip something + adv./prep. to remove or pull something quickly and suddenly
- She whipped the mask off her face.
- The man whipped out a knife.
Extra Examples- She whipped the letter away from him.
- A gust of wind whipped off her hat.
- He whipped out a notebook and began scribbling furiously.
- [transitive] to mix cream, etc. very quickly until it becomes stiff
- whip something Serve the pie with whipped cream.
- Lightly whip the egg whites and add them to the mixture.
- whip something up Whip the egg whites up into stiff peaks.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- lightly
- up
- [transitive] whip somebody/something (North American English, informal) to defeat somebody very easily in a game
- The team whipped its opponents by 35 points.
- They whipped Australia 18–3 in the final game.
- [transitive] whip something (British English, informal) to steal something
- [transitive] whip somebody/something (British English) to tell the MPs belonging to a political party that they must vote a particular way on an issue
- Conservative MPs were whipped to support the amendment.
- The government decided to whip the vote on this controversial bill.
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