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bashing

Word definitions for bashing in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bashing may refer to one of the following: Bashing (pejorative) , physical or verbal assault Bashing (film) , 2005 film by Kobayashi Masahiro Railfan jargon term for travelling behind certain locomotives. An act of recreational radio-controlled car driving. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bash \Bash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bashed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bashing .] [Perh. of imitative origin; or cf. Dan. baske to strike, bask a blow, Sw. basa to beat, bas a beating.] To strike heavily; to beat; to crush. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Hall Caine. Bash her ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An instance of bashing; a physical attack. vb. (present participle of bash English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES queer bashing PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As Trofim Denosovich Lysenko well knew, more than a little bashing is required to undermine ...

Usage examples of bashing.

Drew had given her time to talk with the ogre without encountering the man at the same time, thus avoiding another bashing sequence.

PETA, better known as People for the Unethical Treatment of Humans, has joined the Dogs of Hate in bashing religion.

Even Tim Hannigan there, who put the fear of God into everybody in the fifteen streets with his swearing and bashing, when the mood was on him, even he had never dared to tell her .

Shw picked up a full plastic bottle of Evian and began violently bashing Wade on the head and face.

Then, with much crashing and bashing, the formation moved on to the next post and the next relief.

Because of his recent bashings it hurt a bit, but he endured, feebly patting her thigh with a free hand.

Add to that the knife fight at a club that took both participants and one bystander, the Jane Doe female found stuffed in a recycler, and your everyday bashings, bludgeonings, and brutalities and we've got ourselves a full house.

With the recent gay bashings, he didn't like his roommate walking alone, but Atticus was the only straight person at the party.