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Lambaste

Definitions: Lambaste

Lambaste

Verb

1. Beat with a cane.

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"; "check" is archaic.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Lambaste \Lam*baste"\, transitive verb. [Lam baste to beat.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Lambaste

DomainDefinitions

Slang in 1811

To LAMB, or LAMBASTE. To beat. Lamb pye; a beating: from lambo. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Lambaste

Synonyms: bawl out (v), berate (v), cane (v), chew out (v), chew up (v), chide (v), dress down (v), flog (v), have words (v), jaw (v), lambast (v), lecture (v), rag (v), rebuke (v), remonstrate (v), reprimand (v), reproof (v), scold (v), trounce (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Lambaste

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Punishment

Verb: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: Lambaste

Language Translations for "lambaste"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zhdëp (belabor, belabour, drub, larrup, trounce, wallop, whop), shaj rëndë (blackguard), rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لوم (admonition, blame, censure, railing, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reproof, twit, upbraid), ‏وبخ بعنف (whip), ‏ضرب بعنف (bang, bash, baste, maul, slam, smite, swat, swipe, thump, whack, whale), ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

наругавам (lace, pepper, pitch into, skin, slang, slate, talk to, tell off), нахоквам (pepper, take to task), набивам (imbed, jacket, ram, wedge, whop), напердашвам (clobber, dress down, lace, larrup, lather, paddle, pepper, skin, thrash, whale). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تازیانه(lambast), تازیانه زدن (Lick, Rawhide, Scourge, Stripe, Whip), زخم زبان زدن (Baste, Belabor, Pique), شلاق (Horsewhip, Lash, Scourge, Whip, Whiplash). (various references)

   

French

  

rosser (lace, Lam, lather), réprimander (lash), battre, éreinter (lace into). (various references)

   

German

  

fertigmachen (do for, finalize, finish, get ready, lay into, shatter, shoot down, take it out of, to complete, to get ready, wear out), es tüchtig geben. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαλώνω (argue about / over, bawl, berate, chide, chide smb., jaw, scold, scuffle, take to task, wig, yawp), δέρνω (beat, beat up, beaten, churn, drub, ferule, flog, lash, lick, scourge, shellac, spank, trounce, whip, whop). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"רביץ כ"ו'ן. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elagyabugyál (beat up, clobber, to curry, to lay it on sy, to whomp, to whump, whang). (various references)

   

Italian

  

battere (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belabour, chime, clobber, detonate, flail, flap, flog, flutter, fly, hammer, hit, knock, maul, mint, outplay, overcome, plane, plane down, pound, pulsate, rap, strike, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, whack, whip, win). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ambastelay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

parir (calve, cast, cub, dough, far-seeing, fawning, foalfoot, give birth, give birth to, kid, kittenish, pup, teem, yean), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, clobber, larrup, lathe, lathery, lay off, maltreatment, maul, pasteboard, pomology, quilt, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, wallop, welt, whang, whop). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бить (baste, beat, beaten, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, smash, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whop). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izgrditi (berate, chastise, dress down, give it to him, rip, scathe, scold, snub, tell off, vituperate), izbiti (beat, break out, burst in, burst out, erupt, strike, thrash, trounce). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zurrar en (lather, mess up), criticar severamente (castigate, rap, roast). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skälla ut (abuse, berate, call down, call names, dress down, dust down, insult, lash out against, offend, rate, scold, slang, take apart), klå upp (bash, beat up, belabor, belabour, cane, chaw up, clout, dress down, Lam, lather, paste, paste up, strafe, wallop, whop). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pataklamak (beat, beat up, belabor, belabour, flail, give smb. a whacking, give smb. the works, hide, knock galley-west, lace into, lay into, whale, whop, work over), fırça atmak (berate, give smb. a roasting, give smb. a telling-off, give the stick, keelhaul, lam into, rate, roast, sail into, slam, trounce), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

лупцювати (baste, belabour, fib, flail, hit out, lick, pommel, pummel, whang), бити (bang, batter, beat, castigate, chastise, chime, cob, hit, lay into, maul, sing out, souse, thump, towel, trounce, whop). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lambaste

Derivations

Words beginning with "lambaste": lambasted, lambastes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Lambaste" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allrbeste, cambstec, lambasts, namaste. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lambaste"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "lambaste" (pronounced la'mba"st or la'mbā"st)
4-b a" s tBast.
3-a" s taghast, amassed, assed, blast, cast, caste, classed, fast, gassed, Gast, glassed, grassed, harassed, hast, last, massed, mast, miscast, passed, past, precast, recast, surpassed, unsurpassed, vast.
4-b ā" s tbased, debased.
3-ā" s taced, braced, chased, chaste, defaced, disgraced, displaced, distaste, embraced, encased, erased, faced, foretaste, graced, haste, interlaced, laced, misplaced, paced, paste, placed, raced, replaced, retraced, spaced, taste, traced, unplaced, waist, waste.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Lambaste

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blastema.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-l-m-s-t"

-1 letter: ablates, lambast, malates, maltase, tamable, tamales.

-2 letters: abates, ablate, ablest, alates, ambles, amebas, balsam, basalt, bemata, blames, bleats, lamest, malate, meatal, metals, samlet, stable, tablas, tables, tamale, tamals.

-3 letters: abase, abate, abeam, abets, ables, alate, albas, almas, almes, amble, ameba, atlas, atmas, baals, balas, bales, balms, balsa, basal, baste, bates, beams, beast, beats, belts, bemas, betas, blame, blams, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blest, blets, lamas, lambs, lames, least, mabes, males, malts, mates, meals, meats, melts, metal, sable, samba, satem, setal, slate, smalt, smelt, stale, steal, steam, stela, tabes, tabla, table, taels, talas, tales, tamal, tames, teals, teams, tesla.

-4 letters: aals, abas, abet, able, alae, alas, alba, albs, ales, alma, alme, alms, alts, amas, asea, ates, atma, baal, baas, bale, balm, bals, bams, base, bast, bate, bats, beam, beat, bels, belt, bema, best, beta, bets, blae, blam, blat, blet, east, eats, elms, etas, labs, lama, lamb, lame, lams, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lest, lets, mabe, maes, male, malt, mast, mate, mats, meal, meat, mels, melt, mesa, meta, sabe, sale, salt, same, sate, seal, seam, seat, seta, slab, slam, slat, stab, stem, tabs, tael, tala, tale, tame, tams, teal, team, teas, tela, tels.

-5 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ala, alb, ale, als, alt, ama, ate, baa, bal, bam, bas, bat, bel, bet, eat, elm, els, ems, eta, lab, lam, las, lat, lea, let, mae, mas, mat, mel, met, sab, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tab, tae, tam, tas, tea, tel.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-l-m-s-t"
 

+1 letter: ambulates, blastemal, blastemas, lambasted, lambastes, meatballs, stableman.

 

+2 letters: ameloblast, blastemata, metastable, metastably, mistakable, stablemate, tablemates.

 

+3 letters: acetabulums, ameloblasts, blastematic, megaloblast, melanoblast, stablemates.

 

+4 letters: ambulatories, amiabilities, assemblagist, balletomanes, bilateralism, biomaterials, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, perambulates, somnambulate, transmutable, unmistakable.

 

+5 letters: abnormalities, administrable, ambisexuality, amenabilities, amicabilities, analphabetism, assemblagists, balletomanias, bilateralisms, mailabilities, measurability, megaloblastic, metastability, neuroblastoma, perambulators, somnambulated, somnambulates, transformable, transmittable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lambaste


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 6D 62 61 73 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    --    -...    .-    ...    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01101101 01100010 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#109 &#98 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 006D 0062 0061 0073 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4667796867858671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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