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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are whacked" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in informal contexts to describe someone who is exhausted, crazy, or has been hit or harmed in some way.
Example: "After the long hike, we were completely whacked and needed to rest."
Alternatives: "are exhausted" or "are worn out".
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Older policies often have higher charges than new ones, and may not still be suitable for the people who bought them - but when holders try to escape they are whacked with huge fees.
"At the human hand the animals are whacked and hacked into chopped meat whilst gazing up at their protector with disbelief and pleading for a mercy not familiar to the human spirit, ground and round into hash or stew for the Big Mac pleasure of fat-podge children".
No real Finnish sauna is complete without vihta, the bunch of fresh birch twigs that are whacked against the skin to release their sap.
Firm profits are whacked up at the end of each fiscal year, and that means that "the future is now" for most senior partners.
Crucial state programs are whacked.
It's also not subtle: Cats are kicked, cows' udders are whacked, and caricatured Arabs are bashed.
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The forger was whacked.
My body has been whacked".
Had Tony finally been whacked?
And that they also need to be whacked".
He started out being whacked with six of the worst.
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