bash
verb (used with object)
to strike with a crushing or smashing blow.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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For more than a year, the cantankerous 76-year-old Northern Irish rocker had been bashing government efforts to control the coronavirus, releasing songs with such titles as “Born to Be Free” and “No More Lockdown.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021