bashingnoun
uk/ˈbæʃ.ɪŋ/us/ˈbæʃ.ɪŋ/[ U ] strong criticism of a particular type of person or thing:
There's been a lot of banker-bashing lately.
[ U ] a physical attack on someone:
recent incidents of gay-bashing
[ U ] mainly UK also a bashing [ S ] the act of hitting something hard:
All steaks will benefit from a bashing, as this breaks up the muscle fibres that comprise most of the meat.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pasting
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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