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• bashing
  bashing

  noun

  the act of beating, whipping, or thrashing.
• -bashing
  -bashing

  combining form

bashing

American  

[bash-ing] / ˈbæʃ ɪŋ /

noun

1. the act of beating, whipping, or thrashing.

   a series of unsolved bashings and robberies.

2. a decisive defeat.

   We gave the visiting team a good bashing.

3. (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.

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-bashing British  

combining form

1. informal

   1. indicating a malicious attack on members of a particular group

      queer-bashing

      union-bashing

   2. indicating any of various other activities

      Bible-bashing

      spud-bashing

      square-bashing

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Other Word Forms

• -basher
  combining form

Etymology

Origin of bashing

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

Example Sentences

"I feel sorry for the workers on that carrier who have to be around that every day and for the animals," Ms Bashing said.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2024

But there’s one place “The Monster Bash” survives, at least in part: in the audio of a TV special called The 1988 Oakland Athletics: A Bashing Success.

From Slate • May 27, 2019

Bashing does not appear to be particularly influential.

From Washington Times • May 16, 2018

Bashing contractors and service secretaries for cost overruns is a longstanding tradition on Capitol Hill, a rite of passage that’s part accountability and part political theater.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2016

Bashing the seas to a welter of white, Look at the fleet that he leads to the fight.

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred