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whip into a state
whip someone into a state
Fig. to excite, arouse, or foment someone into some state. (Based on whip someone into doing something.) The governor's speech whipped the audience into a frenzy. The angry cries from the audience whipped the speaker into a rage.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Eadwine | | - | Anglo-Saxon |
| Bent (1) | | BENT | Danish |
| Berengaria | | - | Ancient Germanic (Latinized) |
| GÜLay | | - | Turkish |
| Evgenia | | yev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian), eev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian) | Greek, Russian, Bulgarian |
| Meta | | ME-tah (German) | German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |