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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb lambaste has 2 senses

• lambaste(v = verb.contact) cane, flog, lambast - beat with a cane; Array
is one way to beat, beat up, work over
Sample sentence:
They want to lambaste the prisoners

• lambaste(v = verb.communication) bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce - 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"
is one way to criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot lambaste Sue

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THESAURUS

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

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lambaste

Punishment

VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.

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