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bash

Definition

  • verb: to cause or allow (something, such as part of your body) to hit something very hard or forcefully
  • verb: to strike violently
  • often + 'in'
  • synonyms: hit, abash, beat

Examples

  • newspapers that use their editorial pages to 'bash' [=harshly criticize] the president

  • The children are 'bashing away' [=('US') 'banging away'] at their homework.

  • groups accused of gay 'bashing' [=criticizing or attacking gay people]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) .. I don't have a gun. Otherwise, I'd shoot it off! .. Here's something in the true Jim West styIe! .. I'II bash it with a rock! .. You don't wanna do that. .. Oh, but I do! .. (..)
    1999 Wild Wild West