lash
/læʃ/ verb C2- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash. · Heavy seas lashed the shore.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To strike vigorously; to let fly.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
He/she/it lashes · Past lashed · Past participle lashed · -ing form lashing
Verb forms
- Base form
- lash
- He/she/it
- lashes
- Past
- lashed
- Past participle
- lashed
- -ing form
- lashing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one’s self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power.
The Sea, assuming the form of a woman, replied to him: “Blame not me, my good sir, but the winds, for I am by my own nature as calm and firm even as this earth; but the winds suddenly falling on me create these waves, and lash me into fury.”
When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whip-lash flicked across a horse’s neck.
Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be almost down to earth again.
Other matches
- lash The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which... C1
- lash To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so ... C2
- lash Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional C2
- lash Soft, watery, wet. C2
- lash back Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- lash down To secure with ropes
- lash off To lash out verbally
- lash out To make a sudden violent attack.
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