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bashing

[ bash-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act of beating, whipping, or thrashing:
a series of unsolved bashings and robberies.
a decisive defeat:
We gave the visiting team a good bashing.
(used in combination)
1. unprovoked physical assaults against members of a specified group:
  gay-bashing.
2. verbal abuse, as of a group or a nation:
  feminist-bashing; China-bashing.

-bashing

Origin of bashing¹

First recorded in 1725–35; bash + -ing ¹( def )

Bashing commercialism at a commercial gathering would be ridiculous.

Not that the panel was one giant bashing of the male-dominated comedy world.

Jazz lovers who had taken exception to the previous bashing were told to lighten up, and stop complaining.

Dame Diana Rigg, who plays Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has turned tales of critical bashing into a delightful play.

Republicans and Democrats love bashing lobbyists on the stump.

But his resistance should be secret and not open, for a while; there should be no more "bashing" than was absolutely necessary.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

Nick continued to ponder the strange men and the woman he was coming home to, but it was like bashing his head against a wall.

I was given post at the gates, where for ten minutes my fellows was kept pretty busy bashing 'em and throwing 'em out.

What a terrible thing, if Bert had found out you was in there and put him up to bashing your face.

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