flogging vs licking

flogging and licking both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
flogging	Yes	No	No	No
licking	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, licking is a hypernym of flogging; that is, licking is a word with a broader meaning than flogging:

Other hypernyms of flogging include beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking.

flogging (noun)	licking (noun)
beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment	the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
	an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest