Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Informal To give a thrashing to; beat. See Synonyms at beat.
- v. Informal To scold sharply; berate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To beat severely; thrash; in sailors' use, to beat with a rope's end.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Low, Low, Low To beat severely to beat with a cane.
- v. to scold, reprimand, or berate harshly.
WordNet 3.0
- v. beat with a cane
- v. censure severely or angrily
Etymologies
- First attested in 1637. Probably lam (“beat”) + baste (“beat”) (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps lam1 + baste3. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My meeting with Senator Nesmith was accidental, but Scott never forgave me, nor did he in fact neglect any opportunity to "lambaste" me after that time.”
“Good article Jeremy but clearly all your proof readers are on holiday: lambast is not spelt "lambaste".”
“a fence and, at the last moment, turn the animal's head from it, and then loudly rate and "lambaste" him for refusing!”
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
“Well, since this thing (if it makes it the rest of the way through conference and final passage) doesn't kick in until 2014, will she lambaste Reid and Pelosi for being responsible for having those 180,000 people's blood on their hands?”
“But Charisse could not so easily lambaste God for taking their little boy.”
“They lambaste Obama as socialist slime inadvertently refuting intelligent design.”
“Hayley Williams as good as her Paramore friends ditch a DayGlo as good as usually get down to a commercial operation of creation a torpedo stone record, as good as Eyes rips along upon hair-trigger guitars, tranquil lambaste as good as Williams 'decidedly torpedo pipes (check songs similar to "Careful" as good as "Ignorance" for proof).”
The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery
“The easy part is to simply criticize and lambaste Ebert for not knowing his "editorial place," for commenting outside the bounds of his personal knowledge or professional expertise.”
The Huffington Post: Morris W. O'Kelly: Roger Ebert Misses the Boat
“I can't wait to see all the liberal posters here lambaste women as being dumb and out of touch because they don't agree with what the administration and Congress is telling them.”
“Oh please, and if Huckabee were NOT a Republican, she would lambaste him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lambaste’.
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hunting
crudely, unequivocal, obsolete, obscure, overtly, misdeed, shack, inherent, outcry, hefty, composed, poised and 318 more...
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echt
echt, apocalypse, resurgence, forthright, logorrhea, mercurial, torrid, exorcise, obscure, intrusive, morose, vindictive and 100 more...
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 112 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Them's fightin' words
brannigan, fisticuffs, donnybrook, lambaste, fracas, fray, imbroglio, melee, squabble, quarrel, skirmish, stramash and 28 more...
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Verbs
TO FOSTER GROWTH ..., promote, bolster, facilitate, took over, praise, handle, lambaste, pledge, hoard, inspire, degenerate and 18 more...
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Censure (v.)
Someone must have had an inferiority complex.
vituperate, vilify, trounce, traduce, slander, scold, revile, reprove, reprimand, reprehend, remonstrate, rebuke and 37 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1908 more...
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Citicize/Criticism
belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh and 9 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
These words have been posted on my vocabulary tumblr, wickedcoolwords.tumblr.com!
miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
Tweets
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theorthoepist "Although both spellings are well attested, lambaste is truer to the putative etymology (lam "to beat" + baste "to thrash") and, in any event, vastly predominates." Garner's Modern American Usage, by Bryan A. Garner (2003). Nov 11, 2010
milosrdenstvi Is lambaste or lambast more correct? Aug 15, 2008