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bastonades

bastonades is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bastonade.

Meaning of bastonade

Verb

bastonade (third-person singular simple present bastonades, present participle bastonading, simple past and past participle bastonaded)

  1. (archaic) To beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.
    • A lady, injured by an Austrian soldier, reproached him, and was bastonaded. Repeating her reproaches while under the bastonado, she was bastonaded more.1851, Theodore Dwight, The Roman Republic of 1849

Questions about bastonades

What is bastonades the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bastonades is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bastonade.

Words near bastonades in the dictionary

  1. bastocyst
  2. Bastogne
  3. baston
  4. bastonade
  5. bastonaded
  6. bastonades
  7. bastonading
  8. Bastone
  9. Bastones
  10. bastons
  11. bastos

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