lashed
having lashes or eyelashes, especially of a specified kind or description (usually used in combination): long-lashed blue eyes.
Origin of lashed
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How to use lashed in a sentence
He is to be lashed 50 times each Friday after prayers until it reaches 1,000 lashes.
Wife of Jailed Saudi Blogger: My Husband Is a Victim of the Thought Police | Ensaf Haidar, Advancing Human Rights | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAn angry mob brandishing machetes, stones, and knives lashed out.
Adultery is criminalized, and young women who sleep with boyfriends before marriage can be lashed.
Predictably, the Chinese government lashed out and called the idea “disrespectful” and “provocative.”
On Thursday, fans lashed out against Beyoncé when she posted a picture to Instagram of herself playing golf on vacation.
Beyoncé Accused of Photoshopped“Thigh Gap”; Joe Zee Rumored to Move to Yahoo | The Fashion Beast Team | April 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Two or three deep-eyed, long-lashed Monegasque men smiled at her kindly, as Monegasque men and Italians smile at all children.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonA fifty-mile breeze lashed us spitefully, tugging at our shirt-sleeves and drowning our voices, while we halted on that pinnacle.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThe big ocean liners lashed to port and starboard cut us off from air as well as light and one of them is loaded with Cheddar.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThe driver wanted no directions, but lashed his horse into full speed without the delay of an instant.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles DickensThen we packed, placed the sullen captives in the saddle with hands lashed stoutly, mounted our horses and recrossed the river.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for lashed (1 of 2)
/ (læʃʃt) /
British informal intoxicated; drunk
British Dictionary definitions for -lashed (2 of 2)
having eyelashes as specified: long-lashed
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