lashing

/หˆlรฆสƒษชล‹/

IPA: /L AE1 SH IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

  2. 2

    To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.

  3. 3

    To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

  4. 4

    To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.

    syn:berate
  5. 5

    To ply the whip; to strike.

  6. 6

    To utter censure or sarcastic language.

  7. 7

    (of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down

Synonyms

verb
  1. 1

    To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

    โ€œlash a pack on a horse's backโ€

noun
  1. 1

    Something used to tie something or lash it to something.

    โ€œThe lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.โ€

  2. 2

    (in the form "lashings of"): plenty of

    โ€œLashings of ginger beerโ€

  3. 3

    The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lash, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lashing