Lambast

Definitions: Lambast

Lambast

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.

Synonyms: Lambast

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), lambaste (v), lecture (v), rag (v), rebuke (v), remonstrate (v), reprimand (v), reproof (v), scold (v), trounce (v). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Fighting Words: Writers Lambast Other Writers-From Aristotle to Anne Rice (reference) (more book examples)
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"Lambast" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Lambast" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	37.5%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Language		Translations for "lambast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		扱き下ろす　 (to abuse, to denounce, to disparage, to lambast), 扱き下ろす (to abuse, to denounce, to disparage, to lambast), 扱下ろす (to abuse, to denounce, to disparage, to lambast). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"きおろす (to abuse, to denounce, to disparage, to lambast). (various references)

Pig Latin		ambastlay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lambast": lambaste, lambasted, lambastes, lambasting, lambasts. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-m-s-t"
	-1 letter: balsam, basalt, tablas, tamals.
	-2 letters: albas, almas, atlas, atmas, baals, balas, balms, balsa, basal, blams, blast, blats, lamas, lambs, malts, samba, smalt, tabla, talas, tamal.
	-3 letters: aals, abas, alas, alba, albs, alma, alms, alts, amas, atma, baal, baas, balm, bals, bams, bast, bats, blam, blat, labs, lama, lamb, lams, last, lats, malt, mast, mats, salt, slab, slam, slat, stab, tabs, tala, tams.
	-4 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ala, alb, als, alt, ama, baa, bal, bam, bas, bat, lab, lam, las, lat, mas, mat, sab, sal, sat, tab, tam, tas.
	-5 letters: aa, ab, al, am, as, at, ba, la, ma, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-m-s-t"
	+1 letter: blastema, blastoma, lambaste, lambasts, tambalas.
	+2 letters: ambulates, baptismal, blastemal, blastemas, blastomas, lambasted, lambastes, meatballs, stableman.
	+3 letters: ameloblast, blastemata, blastomata, catabolism, lambasting, metastable, metastably, mistakable, stablemate, tablemates.
	+4 letters: acetabulums, ambulations, ameloblasts, baptismally, blastematic, catabolisms, flamboyants, megaloblast, melanoblast, saltimbocca, stablemates.
	+5 letters: ambulatories, amiabilities, amobarbitals, antiblackism, assemblagist, assumability, balletomanes, bilateralism, biomaterials, glioblastoma, lactalbumins, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, perambulates, saltimboccas, somnambulant, somnambulate, transmutable, unmistakable, unmistakably.
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