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tongue-lashes

tongue-lashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tongue-lash.

Meaning of tongue-lash

Verb

tongue-lash (third-person singular simple present tongue-lashes, present participle tongue-lashing, simple past and past participle tongue-lashed)

  1. To scold, to chew out.

Questions about tongue-lashes

What is tongue-lashes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tongue-lashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tongue-lash.

Words near tongue-lashes in the dictionary

  1. tongue-fencing
  2. tongue-in-cheek
  3. tongue-in-chic
  4. tongue-lash
  5. tongue-lashed
  6. tongue-lashes
  7. tongue-lashing
  8. tongue-lashings
  9. tongue-lolling
  10. tongue-lolling bit
  11. tongue-lolling bits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tongue-lashes (page history and authors); tongue-lash (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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