This shows grade level based on the word's complexity.
tongue-lash
[ tuhng-lash ]
/ ˈtʌŋˌlæʃ /
This shows grade level based on the word's complexity.
verb (used with or without object)
QUIZ
WILL YOU SAIL OR STUMBLE ON THESE GRAMMAR QUESTIONS?
Smoothly step over to these common grammar mistakes that trip many people up. Good luck!
Question 1 of 7
Fill in the blank: I can’t figure out _____ gave me this gift.
Origin of tongue-lash
First recorded in 1880–85
OTHER WORDS FROM tongue-lash
tongue-lashing, nounWords nearby tongue-lash
tongued,
tongue depressor,
tonguefish,
tongue graft,
tongue-in-cheek,
tongue-lash,
Tongue River,
tongue sole,
tongues wag,
tongue-tie,
tongue-tied Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Words related to tongue-lash
castigate,
chide,
rebuke,
reprimand,
reproach,
revile,
scold,
upbraid,
berate,
censure,
chastise,
criticize,
excoriate,
flog,
lambaste,
lash,
penalize,
pummel,
punish,
complain How to use tongue-lash in a sentence
After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.
Language was no barrier; just about every tongue on the planet was babbling away, caught up in the elaborate mystique of a cult.
Sata, who was known as King Cobra because of his sharp tongue, was thought to have been seriously ill for some time.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.
British Dictionary definitions for tongue-lash
verb
(tr) to reprimand severely; scold
Derived forms of tongue-lash
tongue-lashing, noun, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012