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lambaste
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. beat with a cane [syn: cane , flog , lambast ] censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lambaste \Lam*baste"\, v. t. [Lam + baste to beat.] To beat severely; specifically, to beat with a cane. [Low] --Nares. Syn: cane, flog, lambaste. 2. to scold, reprimand, or berate harshly. Syn: rebuke, rag, reproof, reprimand, jaw, dress down, scold, chide, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly. 2 (context dated English) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from lam (1590s, ultimately from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse lemja "to beat, to lame") + baste "to thrash" (see baste ). Related: Lambasted ; lambasting .
Usage examples of lambaste.
Plebeian Assembly to discuss the merits of this favored candidate-and lambaste his rivals.
In San Francisco a group of men were finishing dinner and because the Korean war was a vulnerable topic, they laid plans to lambaste it from one end of the country to the other, but none of them really cared about the war or sought to comprehend it.
He lambastes everyone, but who caused more death and destruction than he?
He exhaled and rolled his eyes, clearly not used to being lambasted by outraged females.
His ideas about women were being lambasted, and by Ham Brooks, who was notoriously gullible game for the fair sex.
Teenae returned from her search and lambasted Joesai, out of worn frustration, blaming him.
Once in the front room, he turned on the radio, and the blare of trumpets lambasted the house.
In the heat of committee debate he would boldly oppose two revered academicians, knocking down their recommendations with his new-found knowledge, then return to the campus, where he would listen meekly as the Cal Tech professors lambasted the analytical procedures in his thesis.
And the editor spends some time lambasting the Civil Guard for its inefficiency in not being able to find a two-ton statue.
I heard that mosaicist lambasting the men outside for the noise the dogs made.
He exhaled and rolled his eyes, clearly not used to being lambasted by outraged females.
In the heat of committee debate he would boldly oppose two revered academicians, knocking down their recommendations with his new-found knowledge, then return to the campus, where he would listen meekly as the Cal Tech professors lambasted the analytical procedures in his thesis.
If you are six foot high, I am six foot six in my stockin' feet, by gum, and can lambaste any two on you in no time.
Editorials lambasted the cowardice of the fleeing criminals, and the Gridnovsky publishing empire threw its weight behind a variety of remedies: Murderer Starter Kits, sponsorship deals for elegant archvillains, and women's magazine articles with titles like “Ten Ways To Find Out If He's Cheating On You (And Deserves To Die).
Melfane had lambasted the cooks and every other woman in earshot for the bland diet they had been reeding her.