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bashing

/ˈbæʃɪŋ/

bashing is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

bashing (plural bashings)

  1. An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
    • I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’1960 [1959], Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, New York: Macmillan, page 34
    • Jean-Claude Juncker has called for an end to “Russia-bashing” two months after scores of Moscow’s diplomats across the EU were expelled in response to the use of a nerve agent in the UK.2018 May 31, Daniel Boffey, quoting Jean-Claude Juncker, “Russia-bashing must stop, says Jean-Claude Juncker”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    beating

Synonyms of bashing

Forms of bashing

pluralbashings

Words formed from bashing

Phrases with bashing

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Words that rhyme with bashing

Questions about bashing

What does bashing mean?
Bashing means an instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
What is bashing the present participle and gerund of?
Bashing is the present participle and gerund of bash.
What part of speech is bashing?
Bashing is a noun.
How do you pronounce bashing?
Bashing is pronounced /ˈbæʃɪŋ/.
What is the plural of bashing?
The plural of bashing is bashings.

Words near bashing in the dictionary

  1. bashi-bazouks
  2. bashibazouk
  3. bashibazouks
  4. Bashilange
  5. bashin'
  6. bashing
  7. bashing about
  8. bashing and grabbing
  9. bashing in
  10. bashing into shape
  11. bashing one out

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