Lambaste \Lam*baste"\, v. t. [Lam + baste to beat.]
To beat severely; specifically, to beat with a cane. [Low]
--Nares.
Syn: cane, flog, lambaste.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. to scold, reprimand, or berate harshly.
Syn: rebuke, rag, reproof, reprimand, jaw, dress down, scold,
chide, berate, bawl out, jaw at, remonstrate with, chew
out, chew up, have words with, lambast.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lambaste
v 1: beat with a cane [syn: cane, flog, lambast]
2: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for
bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke,
rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw,
dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl
out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words,
lambast]
WordNet (r) 2.0
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "lambaste":
admonish, attack, bang, baste, batter, bawl out, beat,
beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, berate, best, birch,
blister, bludgeon, buffet, call down, cane, castigate, censure,
chew, chew ass, chew out, chide, clobber, crawl, cudgel, cuss out,
defeat, destroy, do in, dress down, drub, excoriate, fix, flail,
flap, flay, flog, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell,
give the deuce, give what-for, hammer, hide, hors de combat,
horsewhip, jack up, knock, larrup, lash, lather, lick, maul,
outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint,
outrun, outsail, outshine, paste, patter, pelt, pommel, pound,
pulverize, pummel, put, rap, ream, ream ass, ream out, rebuke,
reprimand, reprove, revile, ruin, scold, scourge, settle, shellac,
sit on, skin, skin alive, sledgehammer, smear, smother, spank,
thrash, thresh, thump, trim, triumph over, trounce, undo, upbraid,
wallop, whip, worst
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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