fustigate

Significat (Anglès)

  1. (transitive) To hit someone with a club.
  2. (figuratively) To harshly criticize someone.

Conceptes

bastonejar

Traduccions

Etimologia (Anglès)

First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin fūstīgātus, perfect passive participle of fūstīgō (“to cudgel to death”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūstis (“a cudgel”) + -igō.

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