1) Beat 2) Punish severely 3) Strike with a cudgel 4) To criticize harshly 5) To cudgel 6) To harshly criticize someone 7) To hit someone with a club 
to cudgel
• (v. t.) To cudgel.
Fus'ti·gate transitive verb [ Latin fustigare , from fustis stick. See 1st Fust .] To cudgel. [ R.] Bailey. 
to cudgel; beat; punish severely. · to criticize harshly; castigate: a new satire that fustigates bureaucratic shilly-shallying.