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{
"term": "whip",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"image": "data/images/fo/food_preparation.png",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "whip",
"heSheIt": "whips"
},
"pastSimple": "whipped",
"pastParticiple": "whipped",
"ingForm": "whipping"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to hit a person or an animal hard with a whip, as a punishment or to make them go faster or work harder",
"sensetop": "whip somebody/something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was taken back to the jail and soundly whipped."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["soundly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to move, or make something move, quickly and suddenly or violently in a particular direction",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.whip something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "A branch whipped across the car window.",
"contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "Her hair whipped around her face in the wind."
},
{
"text": "The waves were being whipped by 50 mile an hour winds.",
"contextForm": "whip something"
},
{
"text": "At the sound of his name, he whipped round and glared at us."
},
{
"text": "The wind whipped across the moors."
},
{
"text": "The wind whipped her hair around her face."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to remove or pull something quickly and suddenly",
"sensetop": "whip something + adv./prep.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She whipped the mask off her face."
},
{
"text": "The man whipped out a knife."
},
{
"text": "She whipped the letter away from him."
},
{
"text": "A gust of wind whipped off her hat."
},
{
"text": "He whipped out a notebook and began scribbling furiously."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to mix cream, etc. very quickly until it becomes stiff",
"sensetop": "whip somethingwhip something up",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Serve the pie with **whipped cream**.",
"contextForm": "whip something"
},
{
"text": "Lightly whip the egg whites and add them to the mixture."
},
{
"text": "Whip the egg whites up into stiff peaks.",
"contextForm": "whip something up"
}
],
"topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["lightly", "up"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to defeat somebody very easily in a game",
"sensetop": "whip somebody/something",
"labels": "(North American English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The team whipped its opponents by 35 points."
},
{
"text": "They whipped Australia 18–3 in the final game."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "to steal something",
"sensetop": "whip something",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "to tell the MPs belonging to a political party that they must vote a particular way on an issue",
"sensetop": "whip somebody/something",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Conservative MPs were whipped to support the amendment."
},
{
"text": "The government decided to **whip the vote** on this controversial bill."
}
],
"topics": ["Politics"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/wɪp/",
"audio": "wh/whip/whip__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wɪps/",
"audio": "wh/whip/whips__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wɪpt/",
"audio": "wh/whip/whipped__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɪpɪŋ/",
"audio": "wh/whip/whipping__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/wɪp/",
"audio": "wh/whip/whip__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wɪps/",
"audio": "wh/whip/whips__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/wɪpt/",
"audio": "wh/whip/whipped__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɪpɪŋ/",
"audio": "wh/whip/whipping__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}