In Play: "The Good Doctor lambasted his volunteer editors for letting suggestioin creep into the Agora, and threatened to increase their impecuniosity by cutting their salary in half. Being as half of nothing is still nothing, this proved to be an empty threat."lambaste
SYLLABICATION: lam·baste
PRONUNCIATION: lăm-bāst'
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: lam·bast·ed, lam·bast·ing, lam·bastes
Informal 1. To give a thrashing to; beat. See synonyms at beat. 2. To scold sharply; berate.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps lam[sup]1[/sup] + baste[sup]3[/sup].
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Lambaste
Nothing to do with the roasting of young sheep.
Regards//Larry
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