La Palabra del Día : azotar
azotar - (transitive verb) to smack, to beat, to slap, to whip, to slam
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Quiero azotar a las personas que hacen daño a los animales.
I want to beat the people who hurt animals.
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No voy a azotar a los niños sin importar el delito.
I won't beat children no matter what the crime.
Cuando veo mis errores tontos, azoto la frente.
When I see my silly mistakes, I smack my forehead.
En la pelicula, " El Motín de La Bounty," al capitan Bligh, le gustaba azotar a la tripulación cuando le diera la gana!
In the move, "Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Bligh used to like to whip the crew whenever he felt like it!
No more beer! Hit the streets!
¡No más cerveza! ¡Azotar a las calles! (a Spanish idiom)
Well I hope I don't get beat up for using the noun form of the verb, but I had to post this since I just finished reading it. (azote - whip) OK I changed it so now I used both forms
Aunque apenas si entreabría los ojos entre las capas de la bufanda, los tenía irritados y enrojecidos por el azote de los diminutos gránulos
Edit: Los diminutos gránulos le azotaba sus ojos en el cuento por Clive Cussler.
Even though she barely had her eyes halfopened between the layers of the scarf, they were irritated and reddened by the beating of the tiny granules.
Please correct my mistakes. 
I cannot flog my dog. No puede azotar a mi perro.
Obviamente al pintor le gustaba observar a las olas azotando las rocas...
Obviously the painter liked watching the waves whipping the rocks...
Right now there is a hurricane wind lashing the East coast.
Ahora mismo hay un viento huracanado azota la costa oriente.
¡Si los niños no se callan, conseguirá un azotar!
If you children don’t keep quiet, you are going to get a whipping!
Las llamas azotaron las laderas de El Ávila cerca de Caracas.
The flames whipped the slopes of El Avila near Caracas.
Fue la marina de los Estados Unidos que me azotaron en forma.
It was the United States Navy that whipped me into shape.
When Moody's lowered their rating on the soveriegn debt of Spain yesterday, many people's investments took a beating, and those people felt slapped by the financial markets.
Cuando Moody's bajó su calificación sobre la deuda soberana de España ayer, las inversiones de algunas personas recibió una paliza y los que la gente se sentía azotado por los mercados financieros.
Ayer la policia hacía huelga y algunos policias hicieron manifestaciones con disturbios y azotaron el presidente.
Yesterday the police went on strike and some of them demonstrated with violence and hit the President.
