Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to whap
Participle: whapped
Gerund: whapping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | whap |
| you | whap |
| he;she;it | whaps |
| we | whap |
| you | whap |
| they | whap |
Perfect
| I | have whapped |
| you | have whapped |
| he;she;it | has whapped |
| we | have whapped |
| you | have whapped |
| they | have whapped |
Past
| I | whapped |
| you | whapped |
| he;she;it | whapped |
| we | whapped |
| you | whapped |
| they | whapped |
Pluperfect
| I | had whapped |
| you | had whapped |
| he;she;it | had whapped |
| we | had whapped |
| you | had whapped |
| they | had whapped |
Future
| I | will whap |
| you | will whap |
| he;she;it | will whap |
| we | will whap |
| you | will whap |
| they | will whap |
Future Perfect
| I | will have whapped |
| you | will have whapped |
| he;she;it | will have whapped |
| we | will have whapped |
| you | will have whapped |
| they | will have whapped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | whap |
| you | whap |
| he;she;it | whap |
| we | whap |
| you | whap |
| they | whap |
Perfect
| I | have whapped |
| you | have whapped |
| he;she;it | have whapped |
| we | have whapped |
| you | have whapped |
| they | have whapped |
Imperfect
| I | whapped |
| you | whapped |
| he;she;it | whapped |
| we | whapped |
| you | whapped |
| they | whapped |
Pluperfect
| I | had whapped |
| you | had whapped |
| he;she;it | had whapped |
| we | had whapped |
| you | had whapped |
| they | had whapped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would whap |
| you | would whap |
| he;she;it | would whap |
| we | would whap |
| you | would whap |
| they | would whap |
Perfect
| I | would have whapped |
| you | would have whapped |
| he;she;it | would have whapped |
| we | would have whapped |
| you | would have whapped |
| they | would have whapped |
Imperative
| you | whap |
| we | Let's whap |
| you | whap |
Verbs conjugated like 'whap'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'whap'
chap,
hap,
wap,
wham,
whip,
whop,
whup,
wrap,
awhape,
bap,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to apply violent force to a person or object
- abuse, aggress, assault, attack, beat, beleaguer, bepommel, beset, besiege, bombard, charge, dust up, fall on, fall upon, hit, impugn, invade, lay into, lay siege, let someone have it, light into, onfall, onset, overrun, pommel, pound, rush, set the dogs upon, set upon, storm, strike, strike at, wap
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.
Sample Sentences
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1844, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180,
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He wears his hat a little a one side, rakish-like, whaps his cane down ag’in the pavement hard, as if he intended to keep things in their place, swaggers a few, as if he though he had a right to look big […]
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TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.) [1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, New York: Bartlett & Welford, page 379:]
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And at last, as they wrestled and whapped together, they fell headlong in the stream. [1902, Henry Van Dyke, “The Mill”, in The Blue Flower, New York: Scribner, page 65:]
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Screen doors whapped throughout the night […] [1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 524:]
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She whapped down on the floor.
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The fish whapped over.