welt
1. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip);
characteristic of many allergic reactions
• Syn:
wale, weal, wheal
• Hypernyms:
injury, hurt, harm, trauma
2. a raised or strengthened seam
• Hypernyms:
seam
1. beat severely with a whip or rod
- The teacher often flogged the students
- The children were severely trounced
• Syn:
flog, whip, lather, lash, slash,
strap, trounce
• Derivationally related forms:
trouncing (for: trounce), strap (for: strap), lash (for: lash), whip (for: whip), whipper (for: whip), whipping (for: whip), flogging (for: flog)
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat up, work over
• Hyponyms:
flagellate, scourge, leather, horsewhip, switch,
cowhide, cat, birch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to welt the prisoners
2. put a welt on
- welt the shoes
• Hypernyms:
add
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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