broadsidenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbrɔːd.saɪd/us/ˈbrɑːd.saɪd/a strong written or spoken attack (on someone):
The candidate fired/launched yet another broadside at the president.
specialized military the action of firing all the guns on one side of a navy ship at the same time
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- nagging
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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broadsideadverb
/ˈbrɔːd.saɪd/uk/ˈbrɔːd.saɪd//ˈbrɑːd.saɪd/with a side facing something :
The car was hit broadside. The front and rear were undamaged.
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Backwards, sideways and back and forth
- anticlockwise
- aside
- back
- back and forth idiom
- backward
- backwards
- counterclockwise
- hither
- hither and thither idiom
- retro
- right/wrong way round idiom
- side
- sideways
- stand
- swept-back
- there
- there and back idiom
- to and fro
- to-ing and fro-ing
- wrong
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broadsideverb [ T ]
/ˈbrɔːd.saɪd/uk/ˈbrɔːd.saɪd//ˈbrɑːd.saɪd/mainly USto hit something on one of its longer sides:
A vehicle broadsided the police car on the passenger side.
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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
- bang
- bowl sb over
- buffet
- bump
- cannon
- catch
- ding
- go into sth
- hit
- jarring
- knock sb down
- knock sb over
- prang
- run (sth) into sth/sb
- run sb/sth down
- sideswipe
- smash
- smash-up
- stack
- strike
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