as in tongue-lashing
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as in whipping
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible
the cat's tail nervously lashed the table leg
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as in licking
to strike repeatedly
all night long sheets of rain lashed the windows
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as in tying
to prevent (someone or something) from moving freely by or as if by means of a line or cord
The raft was made from several logs lashed together with a rope.
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Recent Examples of lashing
Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
But despite the excessive lashings of déjà vu, these are storytelling clichés that work.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
In its long history as the oldest American settlement west of the Rockies, the town has faced fires, maritime tragedies, and wild winter storms with lashing winds and pummeling rain.
—Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
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On many nights, Tamara would find her grandmother hunched over the kitchen table, poring over trial transcripts in which Erik and Lyle delivered hours of tearful and stomach-churning accounts of beatings, verbal lashings and rape.
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The clip shows Kali lashing out at first, before showing her calmy laying with the dogs and snoozing beside her many siblings.
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In an invective posted to the Truth Social platform on Thanksgiving, President Trump used a slur for people with intellectual disabilities to describe Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.—
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In Congo, Tutsis face widespread discrimination and bigoted invective.—
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Flash forward 92-plus years to Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a bleak, lurid festival of racist hate and profane vituperation so vile that even fellow Republicans, who have turned a blind eye to Trump’s character for years, are distancing themselves from the event.—
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The politicization of the COVID response has only worsened this trend, likely resulting in part from Trump’s vituperation.—
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Good's defenders – including city and state leaders – are calling what happened an unjustified attack; federal authorities say the agent was acting in self-defense.—
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In Kyiv, a CNN reporter said that the attack began around midnight, starting with multiple drone strikes on residential buildings.—
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Federal officials have said agents, including those part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, are seeing increases in assaults and threats against them.—
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However, after his conviction on assault and harassment charges, Marvel dropped him from future projects.—
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Bosa responded with an explicit tirade.—
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Perhaps his tirade wasn’t in vain, as Minnesota possessed a sizable free-throw advantage throughout the affair, though the Wolves missed 14 of their 47 attempts.—
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Billed as the Health Care Freedom Amendment, the measure was designed as a rebuke to the Affordable Care Act, the federal health-care law that had been enacted two years earlier and largely upheld by the Supreme Court that summer.—
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The final resolution is not guaranteed to pass, but the vote deals a symbolic rebuke to the president.—
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His only discipline was an oral reprimand in 2025 after Chief Paul Humphrey found him at fault in a crash.—
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Lenard saw people smiling, laughing, making small talk, and watching their kids enjoy themselves without criticism or reprimands.—
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And cornerback Mike Jackson, who had four pass breakups and an interception in the playoff game, dismissed criticism of Evero’s play-calling on the defense’s final drive.—
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The couple, who did not grow up knowing one another because of estrangements in their families, faced criticism from both sets of parents for the union.—
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“Lashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lashing. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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