Usually means: To beat or whip severely.
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  1. vapulate: Collins English Dictionary
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  3. vapulate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  4. vapulate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To flog or whip; to beat or strike.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be flogged, beaten etc.

Similar:
flog, swish, feague, whip, smoke, horse, lather, wallop, verberate, warm, more...

Opposite:
applaud, praise, commend, laud, extol

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Similar:
flog, swish, feague, whip, smoke, horse, lather, wallop, verberate, warm, more...

Opposite:
applaud, praise, commend, laud, extol



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