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Lambaste   /lˌæmbˈæst/  /lˌæmbˈeɪst/   Listen
Lambaste

verb
1.
Beat with a cane.  Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast.
2.
Censure severely or angrily.  Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce.  "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"






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"Lambaste" Quotes from Famous Books



... President, regilates the army and navy, governs twenty-four independent States, and snaps its fingers in the face of all the nations of Europe, as much as to say, who be you? I allot I am as big as you be. 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. The British can whip all the world, and we can whip the British. But this little House of Assembly that folks make such a touss about, what is it? Why jist a decent Grand Jury. They make their presentments ...
— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton



Words linked to "Lambaste" :   castigate, beat, pick apart, tell off, knock, brush down, criticise, beat up, objurgate, criticize, correct, bawl out, chastise, chasten, work over, flog



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