lambaste

Verb

Verb Forms: lambasted, lambasting, lambastes

• To beat severely or to criticize harshly.
• beat with a cane
• censure severely or angrily
• To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
• To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.

Examples

• Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.
• The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
• The Words With Friends player began to lambaste his own poor tile rack.

Synonyms

bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, cane, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, flog, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce, admonish, animadvert, bang, bash, baste, batter, beat, belabor, berisp, blast, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, calcitrate, castigate, censure, chastise, condemn, criticize, dab, dash, denounce, denunciate, dowse, drag, eat someone alive, excoriate, fetch one a blow, find fault, flap, fulminate, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, give toco, hammer, hit, impact, inveigh, jerk, kick, knock, lace into, lambaste, light into, lunge, objurgate, pat, patter, pelt, pink, poke, pooh-pooh, pound, pummel, punch, put someone on blast, rap, rate, read somebody the riot act, reprehend, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, slam, slap, smite, strike, swap, tap, tear into, tell off, thrash, threap, thump, thwack, tick off, tosh, upbraid, vapulate, vilify, vituperate, whack, whip, yerk