lashverb
uk/læʃ/us/læʃ/lash verb (HIT)
[ I or T ] to hit with a lot of force:
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
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lash verb (CRITICIZE)
[ T ] to criticize someone severely
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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
- lashing
- 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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lash verb (TIE)
[ T usually + adv/prep ] to tie together tightly and firmly:
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Fastening and tying
- attach
- be locked together idiom
- board sth up
- bolt
- bound
- bow 1
- buckle
- buckle up
- hobble
- ligature
- mount
- nail
- put sth up
- reef knot
- rivet
- rope
- tie
- twist tie
- tying
- yoke
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Phrasal verb(s)
lashnoun
uk/læʃ/us/læʃ/lash noun (HAIR)
[ C usually plural ] an eyelash
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The eye & surrounding area
- aqueous humour
- ciliary muscle
- compound eye
- epiretinal membrane
- eyeball
- eyelid
- fovea
- glassy
- hooded
- infraorbital
- iris
- lacrimal
- lens
- lid
- oculomotor
- optic nerve
- stare
- suspensory ligament
- vitreous humour
- wink
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lash noun (HIT)
[ C or S ] a thin strip of leather at the end of a whip, or a hit with this, especially as a form of punishment:
[ C ] a sudden, violent movement of something that can bend:
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Punishing by causing pain
- birch
- cane
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- corporal punishment
- flagellate
- flay
- horsewhip
- kneecap
- lynch
- lynch law
- mortification
- mortification of the flesh idiom
- rack
- stone
- tar
- thumbscrew
- treadmill
- walloping
- whip
- whipping
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