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LAMBASTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lambaste mean?
• LAMBASTE (verb)
The verb LAMBASTE has 2 senses:
2. censure severely or angrily
Familiarity information: LAMBASTE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: lambasted
Past participle: lambasted
-ing form: lambasting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beat with a cane
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
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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