whiplash

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The lash of a whip.
2. isim An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.

   “Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.”

3. isim An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock.

   “tonal whiplash”

4. fiil To jerk back and forth; to buffet.

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

5. fiil To lash as if with a whip.

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