Word Definitions & Examples
verb
Sense 1
"The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger''s car"
"The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"
"The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s something with something
verb
Sense 2
"Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"
"We beat the competition"
"Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
Entails:
win
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
verb
Sense 3
"The teacher often flogged the students"
"The children were severely trounced"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Semantic Complexity
41%
Sense Count
3
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
45
Times Searched
2
Relationship Distribution
Word Relationship Graph
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms