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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: beat with a cane [syn: cane, flog, lambaste, lambast]
2: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb see lambaste

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lambasts, lambasting, lambasted) Note: in AM, usually use 'lambaste' If you lambast someone, you criticize them severely, usually in public. (FORMAL) Grey took every opportunity to lambast Thompson and his organization. VERB: V n