tanning
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈtænɪŋ/
- NSFW
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- You'll get a tanning you won't forget!
Examples
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That's like a tanning bed but for criminals.
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Giving the boy here the tanning of a lifetime.
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And testicle tanning is a really bad idea.
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If you've had the tanning you deserve, that's the end of it.
Fiction book (1995) -
Twentysomethings who wouldn't know a coffin from a tanning bed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Tanning Room - Day
Fiction book (1998) -
You'll be in for a good tanning from both of them. "No, I won't," Catch-a-Tick declared.
Fiction book (1995) -
Some mothers might have taken pity after seeing this, but May's only strengthened her resolve to give her errant daughter a good tanning.
Blog text (25) -
Auto insurers, coffee shops, bookstores, tattoo parlors, tanning salons, anime stores, psychs, some restaurants, and some types of medical services will go out of business as things get worse.
Blog text (28) -
He received a severe tanning from his father for misbehaving at school.
Synonyms
33
4.8
A hit on a child's bottom as punishment
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3.8
Beating a person or animal with a whip as punishment
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5.7
Physical hitting of a person to make them obey rules
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7.0
Beating someone with a whip or strap as punishment
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9.9
Beating the body as a religious ceremony, as punishment, or for sexual pleasure
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8.0
An act of beating someone with a whip as punishment
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5.1
A light spanking with a flat board used as punishment
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9.9
A punishment that involves beating the soles of someone's feet with a stick
An act of hitting someone with a long leather whip as punishment
Antonyms
Compounds
A group of businesses that offer ways to darken the skin, like spray tans and sunbeds
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
tanning = tan (semi-transparent) = tan + ing
Formed by the verb 'tan' (to beat) + -ing, the derivation is clear but this sense is informal or archaic and may be unfamiliar to many learners.
Etymology
Tanning (a beating) comes from the same root as tan in leather work; people once spoke of treating a hide roughly, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of a harsh punishment as treating someone's 'skin' like a hide to be worked on. That's why 'getting a tanning' means a severe, old-fashioned beating.