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bashing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 open with a rock.
--Kipling.
Wiktionary
n. An instance of bashing; a physical attack. vb. (present participle of bash English)
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.
is a 2005 film by Masahiro Kobayashi. It premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Bashing went on to win special jury award at the Fajr Film Festival and won grand prize at Tokyo FILMeX.
Bashing is a harsh, gratuitous, prejudicial attack on a person, group, or subject. Literally, bashing is a term meaning to hit or assault, but when it is used as a suffix, or in conjunction with a noun indicating the subject being attacked, it is normally used to imply that the act is motivated by bigotry. The term is also used metaphorically, to describe verbal or critical assaults. Topics which attract bashing tend to be highly partisan and personally sensitive topics for the bashers, the victims, or both. Common areas include religion, nationality, sexuality, and politics.
Physical bashing is differentiated from regular assault because it is a motivated assault, which may be considered a hate crime. In relation to non-physical bashing, the term is used to imply that a verbal or critical attack is similarly unacceptable and similarly prejudicial. Use of the term in this manner is an abusive ad hominem action, used to denounce the attack and admonish the attackers by comparing them to perpetrators of physical bashing.
Karen Franklin, in her paper "Psychosocial motivations of hate crimes perpetrators" identifies the following motivations for bashing: socially instilled prejudice or partisan conflict; the perception that the bashing subject is in some way contrary to, or in offense to, an underlying ideology; group or peer influence.
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.