0 past simple and past participle of flail
1 (especially of arms and legs) to move energetically in an uncontrolled way:
He charged in and flailed frantically around without landing a single punch.
Shrapnel flailed the superstructure of the tanker, wounding 14 men.
He stripped his clothes and flailed through the underbrush, for about half an hour.
It is often flailed in large figure-8 patterns across the body with such speed and violence that the displacement of air is loudly discernible.
She flailed at the men with her umbrella and then rushed to the kings apartments to identify the conspirators.
What ensued was a farcical fist fight in which the combatants were unable to keep their footing on the ice as they flailed away at each other.
