Lambaste \Lam*baste"\, v. t. [Lam + baste to beat.]
To beat severely; specifically, to beat with a cane. [Low]
--Nares.
Syn: cane, flog, lambaste.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. to scold, reprimand, or berate harshly.
Syn: rebuke, rag, reproof, reprimand, jaw, dress down, scold,
chide, berate, bawl out, jaw at, remonstrate with, chew
out, chew up, have words with, lambast.
[WordNet 1.5]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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103 Moby Thesaurus words for "lambaste":
admonish, attack, bang, baste, batter, bawl out, beat,
beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, berate, best, birch,
blister, bludgeon, buffet, call down, cane, castigate, censure,
chew, chew ass, chew out, chide, clobber, crawl, cudgel, cuss out,
defeat, destroy, do in, dress down, drub, excoriate, fix, flail,
flap, flay, flog, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell,
give the deuce, give what-for, hammer, hide, hors de combat,
horsewhip, jack up, knock, larrup, lash, lather, lick, maul,
outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint,
outrun, outsail, outshine, paste, patter, pelt, pommel, pound,
pulverize, pummel, put, rap, ream, ream ass, ream out, rebuke,
reprimand, reprove, revile, ruin, scold, scourge, settle, shellac,
sit on, skin, skin alive, sledgehammer, smear, smother, spank,
thrash, thresh, thump, trim, triumph over, trounce, undo, upbraid,
wallop, whip, worst
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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