{
    "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
}