英和和英

名詞

whiplash (複数形 whiplashes)

1. the lash of a whip
2. an injury to the upper spine caused by a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction

同意語

• whiplash injury (2)

動詞

to whiplash (三人称単数 現在形 whiplashes, 現在分詞 whiplashing, 過去形および過去分詞形 whiplashed)

1. To jerk back and forth; to buffet
   • 2008 December 23, Nicholas Confessore, “Resistance to Kennedy Grows among Democrats”, The New York Times:

     […] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.

2. To lash as if with a whip
   • 1990 V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina^[1], ISBN 0671729462, page 98:

     After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.