bash
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æʃ
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse, akin to Swedish basa 'to baste, whip, lash, flog', Danish baske 'to beat, strike, cudgel'.
[edit] Verb
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to bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
- To violently pound downward with one's fists.
- The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
- To criticize harshly.
- He bashed my ideas.
- (Internet colloq.) To submit to Bash.org, or QDB.
- To strike heavily.
- He bashed himself against the door.
- To collide.
- Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
[edit] Translations
to pound downward
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to criticize
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to collide
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[edit] Noun
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bash (plural bashes)
- A large party; gala event.
- They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
- An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.
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an attack
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