Noun

• S: (n) soapsuds, suds, lather (the froth produced by soaps or detergents)
• S: (n) fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither (agitation resulting from active worry) "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"
• S: (n) lather (a workman who puts up laths)
• S: (n) lather (the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse))

Verb

• S: (v) flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce (beat severely with a whip or rod) "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) beat, beat up, work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression) "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) lather (form a lather) "The shaving cream lathered"
• S: (v) lather (exude sweat or lather) "this unfit horse lathers easily"
• S: (v) soap, lather (rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning)