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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

or lambast transitive verb Etymology: probably from ¹lam + baste Date: 1620 1. to assault violently ; beat, whip 2. to attack verbally ; censure <critics lambasted his performance>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also lambast) colloq. 1 thrash; beat. 2 criticize severely. Etymology: LAM(1) + BASTE(3)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lambaste Lam*baste", v. t. [Lam + baste to beat.] To beat severely. [Low] --Nares.

Moby Thesaurus

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