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spankspank /spæŋk/ verb [transitive]  spankOrigin: 1700-1800 From the sound VERB TABLEspank |
Present | I, you, we, they | spank | | he, she, it | spanks | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | spanked | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have spanked | | he, she, it | has spanked | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had spanked | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will spank | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have spanked |
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Present | I | am spanking | | he, she, it | is spanking | | you, we, they | are spanking | Past | I, he, she, it | was spanking | | you, we, they | were spanking | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been spanking | | he, she, it | has been spanking | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been spanking | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be spanking | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been spanking |
- Arizona spanked Nevada 100-85.
- Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline.
- The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper.
- At this point he spanked her bottom.
- He spanked them and he had them spank one another.
- He was spanked and now has to say he is speaking only for himself.
- I can't recall really spanking them.
- She was spanked by the outraged Emperor because, nude and proletarian, she was masquerading as a nymph.
to hit someone► hit to hit someone quickly and hard with your hand, a stick etc: · He hit him hard in the stomach.· I don’t like to see people hitting a dog. ► beat to hit someone deliberately many times, especially very hard: · The girl had been beaten to death.· He was beating the donkey with a stick. ► strike written to hit someone with your hand or a weapon. Strike is more formal than hit and is mainly used in written English: · Her husband struck her twice across the face.· Police say that the man had been struck on the head. ► punch to hit someone hard with your closed hand, especially in a fight: · I punched him on the nose.· She was screaming and punching him with her fists. ► thump informal to punch someone very hard: · Sometimes I just want to thump him. ► beat somebody up to hurt someone badly in a violent attack, by hitting them many times: · If I tell the police, they'll beat me up.· He had been beaten up and tortured with lighted cigarettes. ► slap to hit someone with your open hand, especially because you are angry with them: · They had a big row and she ended up slapping him. ► spank (also smack especially British English) to hit someone, especially a child, with your open hand in order to punish them: · Should a parent ever smack a child?· I don’t agree with smacking.· In those days, children were spanked if they behaved badly. to hit someone as a punishment► beat to repeatedly hit someone with your hand, with a stick etc as a punishment: · The guards used to regularly beat the prisoners.· Teachers are no longer allowed to beat students who misbehave.beat with: · Slaves were sometimes beaten with sticks or even whipped. ► spank to hit someone repeatedly, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand, on their bottom: · The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper.· Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline. ► smack/slap also swat American to hit someone, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand on their hand, the backs of their legs, their face etc: · If you don't stop that, I'll smack you!· Slap her hand lightly when she touches something she shouldn't.· He grinned and I wanted to swat him, but he wasn't my son so I didn't. ► give somebody a beating to hit someone violently and repeatedly with something such as a stick, in order to punish them: · The guards gave the prisoner a beating.give somebody a good/sound beating: · His father took him into the barn and gave him a good beating. ► whip/flog to hit someone very hard with a rope, whip etc especially on their back in order to punish them: · The hostage had terrible scars on his back where he had been whipped.· What kind of a society flogs women simply for saying what they think? ► corporal punishment the practice of punishing people, especially children at school, by hitting them with something such as a stick: · In my first year at Hendon School, I had my first taste of corporal punishment.· Corporal punishment is, thankfully, no longer used. ► spanking new a spanking new (=completely new) conference centre to hit a child on their bottom with your open hand, as a punishment SYN smack► see thesaurus at hit—spank noun [countable]: a spank on the bottom |