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fustigate
 
SYLLABICATION:fus·ti·gate
PRONUNCIATION:  fst-gt
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: fus·ti·gat·ed, fus·ti·gat·ing, fus·ti·gates
1. To beat with a club; cudgel. 2. To criticize harshly: “We followed [Ibsen] as he fustigates himself and us” (Patrice Chereau).
ETYMOLOGY:Late Latin fstigre, fstigt- : Latin fstis, club + Latin agere, to do; see ag- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:fusti·gation —NOUN
 
 
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