英语词汇“spank”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINspank

Origin:

1700-1800 From the sound

VERB TABLE

spank

Simple Form
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

Continuous Form
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

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

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.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

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.

THESAURUSto 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.

Longman Language Activatorto 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.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► spanking new

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