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LAMBASTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lambaste mean? 

LAMBASTE (verb)
  The verb LAMBASTE has 2 senses:

1. beat with a caneplay

2. censure severely or angrilyplay

  Familiarity information: LAMBASTE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAMBASTE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they lambaste  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it lambastes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: lambasted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: lambasted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: lambasting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Beat with a cane

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cane; flog; lambast; lambaste

Hypernyms (to "lambaste" is one way to...):

beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to lambaste the prisoners


Sense 2

Meaning:

Censure severely or angrily

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; scold; take to task; trounce

Context example:

The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

Hypernyms (to "lambaste" is one way to...):

criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lambaste"):

castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)

brush down; tell off (reprimand)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot lambaste Sue


 Context examples 


I'm a-thinkin' that was the one I lambasted with the club.

(White Fang, by Jack London)



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