bastinades Antonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- knobkerries
- billies
- staffs
- staves
- rods
- bludgeons
- bats
- cudgels
- truncheons
- clubs
- mallets
- hammers
- saps
- shillelaghs
- nightsticks
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Meaning of bastinades
bastinades
a blow with a stick or cudgel, to subject to repeated blows, stick, cudgel, a punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick, a beating especially with a stick
bastinades Sentence Examples
- The military leader ordered bastinades, a severe beating, for the deserters.
- The ruthless ruler wielded bastinades to quell any sign of dissent.
- The slave master employed bastinades as a cruel and inhumane form of punishment.
- The prisoners endured excruciating pain as they were subjected to relentless bastinades.
- The faint sound of bastinades striking flesh echoed through the desolate prison yard.
- The townspeople condemned the use of bastinades as a barbaric and pointless practice.
- The scars of bastinades marred the bodies of those who had suffered under such torture.
- The abolitionists denounced bastinades as a vile and degrading form of corporal punishment.
- Historians recorded the horrors of bastinades, a testament to the brutality of past eras.
- The oppressive regime's use of bastinades cast a shadow of fear over the populace.
FAQs About the word bastinades
a blow with a stick or cudgel, to subject to repeated blows, stick, cudgel, a punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick, a beating esp
canes, waddies, billy clubs,batons, staves, shillalahs, knobkerries, billies, staffs, staves
No antonyms found.
The military leader ordered bastinades, a severe beating, for the deserters.
The ruthless ruler wielded bastinades to quell any sign of dissent.
The slave master employed bastinades as a cruel and inhumane form of punishment.
The prisoners endured excruciating pain as they were subjected to relentless bastinades.
