单词 | flailing |
释义 | flailingadjective flail·ing ˈflā-liŋ 1 : moving, swinging, or beating wildly like a flail —used especially of a person or a person's limbs They dragged her toward cabin five, while the other campers made way to avoid her flailing feet. 2 a : beset by difficulties : struggling a flailing economy … phoned a friend to vent about his flailing marriage … b : clumsy or ineffectual their flailing attempts/efforts to save the company flailingly adverb … was walking along the ledge of a precipitous dropoff when he slipped on a mossy rock and fell flailingly into the current … flailing 1 of 2 nounas in waving Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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flailing 2 of 2verb1 as in flapping to move or cause to move with a striking motion started to flail his arms wildly when he spied a bat in the house Synonyms & Similar Words
2 as in whipping to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible gruesome evidence that the prisoner had been flailed Synonyms & Similar Words
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