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.

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

Domain	Definitions
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.

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)

Context	Synonyms 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.

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.

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).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lambaste" (pronounced la'mba"st or la'mbā"st)
4	-b a" s t	Bast.
3	-a" s t	aghast, 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 t	based, debased.
3	-ā" s t	aced, 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.

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.
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