621. Whiplash - GRE Vocabulary - English Vocabulary

Whiplash : 채찍질, (특히 자동차 사고로 인한) 목뼈 손상, (갑작스런/급진적/과격한) 예기치 않은 변화[움직임], (마치 재찍질 하는 것 처럼  갑작스럽게) 때리다, 치다, 강타하다, 피해를 입히다, 강타

 

1)
a whip is a stick with a piece of leather or a piece of rope on the end that you use to beat an animal
a whiplash, the basic meaning is a lash, a stroke of whip
the lash of a whip

 

 

2)
now most commonly you will find this word whiplash talking about car accidents
when you are in a car and you crash intoo something, there is a very suden deceleration and your head goes forward and then it goes back suddenly. that is whiplash, this cause an injury to the neck
if you have whiplash in an accident or if you suffer from whiplash then you can probably get money from the car insurance compnay

 

 

3)
we can also use whiplash, to talk about a sudden unexpected change
the war in the Ukraine casued a whiplash effect on the price of oil and gass
it's a sudden change
you can also use whiplash for anything that is metaphorically a sudden change and movement
rope broke and it whiplashed back
anything resembling of a whip
a sudden change
there has been whiplash in attitudes, very very radically

 

 

4)

you can also use the word whiplash, to talk about, to hit something or to beat something
the economy has been whiplashed by inflation, it's suffering from inflation
it's like it is being whipped
it's a sudden whipping motion, but using it metaphorically, to beat, to hit as if with a lash
the coast was whiplashed by the storm 
new tax increases are whiplashing companies earnings
they are beating them, they are whipping them
they are having a very negative effect on them
to whiplash, to beat, to hurt
if you feel shocked about something, you feel whiplash
the news suddenly hit me, it whiplashed me
I was hit by the whiplash of the reality, the sudden onset of the reality

 

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