Word Finder - lashed

definition

To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

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To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.

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To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

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To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.

synonyms

• berate

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To ply the whip; to strike.

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To utter censure or sarcastic language.

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(of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down

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To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

example

lash a pack on a horse's back

The branches lashed about me.

When she felt the knife near one ankle, she lashed out at him.

She blinked back tears and lashed out blindly.

The hidden stranger lashed out at him.

Most of them had serious problems with drugs and alcohol, and suffered and lashed out during the treatment process.

Rhyn looked up, and Kris charged him.  He knocked Rhyn to the ground, wrestling the dagger free, and lashed out.

Again she lashed out with the whip - this time in earnest.

Talon lashed out at Dusty, and she gasped as he barely blocked in time.

Jenn sensed the next vamp charge her and spun, burying her knife in the neck of the nearest before she lashed out with a kick at the next.

Among his numerous writings may be mentioned Lives of the Saints, Discourses on the Seven Sacraments, and especially his sermons preached before the diet, in which he lashed the Poles for their want of patriotism and prophesied the downfall of the country.

Olaf lashed his ships side to side, his own - the "Long Serpent," the finest-war-vessel as yet built in the north - being in the middle of the line, where her bows projected beyond the others.

They were lashed into positive fury by the proposal which he was now making to abolish the corn laws.

The rabbit thumped the ground once and then leaped into the air, its tail flashing in the sunlight as it lashed out with its hind legs.

Instead of answering, she lashed out at him, following her kick sequence with an elbow to his chest.

He lashed out at the hapless photographer in a fit of rage described by onlookers as " right Royal " .

The drunk made a racist remark, then suddenly lashed out at the trio.

Note the pottery vessels used to scoop up the water lashed to the perimeter of the wheel.

The striker let the ball bounce once, then lashed an unstoppable volley past a statuesque Barnard and in off the upright.

What sportsmen! and as if scorning to say more to the frightened and shamefaced count, he lashed the heaving flanks of his sweating chestnut gelding with all the anger the count had aroused and flew off after the hounds.

April points out that Cruise had "lost a great deal of public affection when he lashed out at Brooke Shields with his views on postpartum depression."

A typical stingray injury scenario involves a person who inadvertently steps on a resting stingray and is lashed in the ankle by its tail.

Maddened with the knowledge, he lashed out and attacked Andy Bellefleur forcing Jason Stackhouse to kill him.

Her laughter lashed out in the clear air, seizing his attention.

Imagine a million square miles of empty desert, an unmapped land patched with treacherous quicksand, a blisteringly hot place lashed by sandstorms.

Amidst the wreckage of a defeated army, in the storm lashed hills of the Portuguese frontier, Sharpe takes a terrible revenge.

From this time forward he was engaged in a ceaseless polemic against every fresh advance of the Napoleonic power and pretensions; with matchless sarcasm he lashed "the nerveless policy of the courts, which suffer indignity with resignation"; he denounced the recognition of Napoleon's imperial title, and drew up a manifesto of Louis XVIII.

At the first sound of trampling hoofs and shouting, Petya lashed his horse and loosening his rein galloped forward, not heeding Denisov who shouted at him.

The people flocked to hear him, attracted by the force and homeliness of his language, the grotesqueness of his humour, and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all classes of society and of the court in particular.

Joao; in Patria he evoked in a series of dramatic scenes and lashed with satire the kings of the Braganza dynasty, and in Os Simples he interprets in sonorous stanzas the life of country-folk by the light of his powerful imagination and pantheistic tendencies.