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👖 A fabric ridge 🚢 A ship plank 🤕 A skin mark 🥲 To mark skin
to wale

to wale

9.9
To mark the skin with raised ridges by hitting or rubbing repeatedly
  • verb
  • /weɪl/
translation icon : provocar ronchas
  • - You weren't waling away on yourself.

Examples

  • Set right there, or I'll wale you.

    Shoot Out (1971)

  • And then you proved him right by waling him, you stupid cracker.

    The Prince of Tides (1991)

  • When I got exhausted and fell down, he waled me with his shoe.

    Uncle Buck (1989)

  • Was it a date with that pretty girl you've been waling home from school with?

    White Terror (2020)

  • They kept the camera running while they were waling away on those guys.

    Canadian Bacon (1995)

  • Everyone's asleep, and here's lonely old Dupree - just waling away on himself.

    You, Me and Dupree (2006)

  • The teacher warned him that if he continued to misbehave, she would wale him with a ruler.

  • He accidentally waled his arm on the rough surface of the wall when he stumbled.

  • After the fight, he was left with several bruises where his opponent had waled him.

Synonyms

to welt
vsto wale
  • Offensive
8.9

To hit someone and make a raised red mark on their skin

focuses on the resulting raised ridges after repeated strikes or rubbing

Compounds

wide wale
  • Specialized
1 8.1

A thick fabric with wide raised lines

narrow wale
8.3

A corduroy fabric with thin, closely spaced raised lines

How Hard

to flog
  • NSFW
18 8.3
to wale
9.9
to beat
  • NSFW
∞ 1.2
to brush
133 1.6

Surface Forms

wale infinitive
waling present participle
wales third person singular
waled past
waled past participle

Etymology

To wale as a verb means to make a raised ridge on the skin; it is the action of leaving a 'welt' or ridge by striking or rubbing, which is why the word means to mark the skin.