The Collaborative International Dictionary
To lash out
Lash \Lash\, v. i. To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.
To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
--Dryden.
To lash out, to strike out wildly or furiously; also used figuratively.
Usage examples of "to lash out".
The counterarguments bubbled in Egan's mind: that persecuted minorities were the likeliest to become fringes, to lash out.
Until the Russians had withdrawn further it would be necessary to maintain a high state of readiness, just in case they were still able to lash out against the American battle group.
Several pit fiends shrank away, expecting Geryon to lash out with deadly force to punish this impertinence.
His first impulse had been to lash out at her with a sharp-pointed insult.