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Synonyms for bashing
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : bash-ing |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæʃ ɪŋ |
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Définition of bashing
Origin :- "a heavy blow," 1805, from bash (v.). Meaning "an attempt" is attested by 1948. On a bash "on a drunken spree" is slang from 1901, which gave the word its sense of "party."
- noun abuse against a group or individual based on identity or ideological beliefs
- Troth, and I've had a bashing once afore, and what I've had once I can do with agin.
- Extract from : « Six Years in the Prisons of England » by A Merchant - Anonymous
- Then a bashing, as you call it, would not frighten you from committing a crime?
- Extract from : « Six Years in the Prisons of England » by A Merchant - Anonymous
- In a second Harve had him tripped and thrown and was down on him bashing in his face for him.
- Extract from : « Back Home » by Irvin S. Cobb
- Bashing her dolls' heads was, with this baby, a preliminary to loving them.
- Extract from : « The Quiver, Annual Volume 10/1899 » by Various
- But as you say, what's been done can't be remedied by bashing in a man's head.
- Extract from : « Parrot & Co. » by Harold MacGrath
- I hadn't much nerve left after the bashing I had taken a fortnight before and didn't hold much hope.
- Extract from : « A Yankee in the Trenches » by R. Derby Holmes
- But his resistance should be secret and not open, for a while; there should be no more "bashing" than was absolutely necessary.
- Extract from : « The Secret Glory » by Arthur Machen
- Bashing or not, criticism of the media reflects the fact that media expanded their participation in power.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- At that moment William hove out of the night, driving his tent before him by bashing it with a mallet.
- Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 152, Feb. 7, 1917 » by Various
- A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
- Extract from : « Little Brother » by Cory Doctorow
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