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bashed

/bæʃt/

bashed is the simple past and past participle of bash.

Meaning of bash

Verb (1)

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

  1. (informal) To strike heavily; to beat.
    • The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
  2. (informal) To collide; used with into or together.
    • Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
  3. (informal, transitive) To criticize harshly.
    • He bashed my ideas.

Verb (2)

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To abash (make ashamed)
    • His countenance was bold and bashed not.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37

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Words formed from bashed

Phrases with bashed

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Words that rhyme with bashed

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Questions about bashed

What is bashed the simple past and past participle of?
Bashed is the simple past and past participle of bash.
How do you pronounce bashed?
Bashed is pronounced /bæʃt/.

Words near bashed in the dictionary

  1. bashas
  2. bashaw
  3. bashawism
  4. bashaws
  5. bashawship
  6. bashed
  7. bashed about
  8. bashed and grabbed
  9. bashed in
  10. bashed into shape
  11. bashed one out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bashed (page history and authors); bash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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