flagellate | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive)Towhiporscourge.1976December 11, David Holland, “A Conversation With Maitresse”, inGay Community News, volume 4, number24, page13:Red welts rising from aflagellatedback; (transitive,idiomatic)Toharshlychideorchastise, toreprimand.; (transitive)Of aspermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page63:The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny spermflagellatesits tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.

Examples:

EN: On every Good Friday, they flagellate their legs using wooden disks full of fragments of glass and run to spread their blood on the streets where, in a few hours, the procession, with a crucifix, will pass by.
ES: En la mañana del Viernes Santo se golpean las piernas... con tacos llenos de vidrio, para llenar de sangre las calles por donde pasara a cualquier hora la procesión del Jesús Muerto.
EN: Josefina, this novice wishes to be imprisoned, to flagellate herself and to ponder her sins in solitude.
ES: Escucha bien lo que te digo. Josefina, pon a María en el aislamiento. Ella se quedara solo para rezar por su alma y para meditar y hacer ayuno por algún tiempo.
EN: Now, don't flagellate yourself over this, Richard.
ES: No, no te tortures más, Richard.
EN: They seem to flagellate, almost like protozoa.
ES: Parecen moverse como los protozoos.
EN: They would flagellate themselves before they put on their breastplates and went into battle!
ES: Se flagelaban a sí mismos antes de ponerse sus corazas y salir a la batalla.
EN: Enjoy the right to flagellate!
ES: ¡Disfruta del derecho a flagelar!
EN: You may flagellate us for the sins that we committed against you.
ES: Puedes flagelarnos por los pecados cometidos contra ti.
EN: You wanna flagellate yourself in front of colleagues, that's one thing.
ES: Querer flagelarte delante de tus compañeros es una cosa.
EN: The Renouncers flagellate themselves for the forgiveness of humanity.
ES: Los renunciadores se flagelan para pedir perdón por la humanidad.
EN: And flagellate your naked body twice nightly.
ES: Y flagelarte el cuerpo desnudo dos veces por las noches.
ES: Y flagelarse su cuerpo desnudo dos veces por las noches.
EN: Self-flagellate?
ES: ¿Autoflagelación?
EN: See how they see those torture devices to flagellate themselves with radioactivity?
ES: ¿Ves cómo usan esos aparatos de tortura para flagelarse con radioactividad?
EN: You know, so, flagellate me.
ES: Tres...
EN: Gives you another reason to flagellate yourself!
ES: ¡Te dará otra razón para flagelarte!
EN: At the end of it, you can get back on your knees and flagellate yourself in front of Cole and Luisa...
ES: Luego de eso, podrás volver a ponerte de rodillas y flagelarte enfrente de Cole y Luisa--

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