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LAMBASTE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they lambaste
... he / she / it lambastes
Past simple: lambasted
-ing form: lambasting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
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
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
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
Sense 2
Meaning:
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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