What does "bashing" mean?

An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.

What is a synonym for "bashing"?

Common synonyms include: beating, beating, buffetting, hammering, hypercriticism.

Bashing

//ˈbæʃɪŋ// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

1
An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
"I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’"

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of bash form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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beating beating buffetting hammering hypercriticism

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"It's funny how Esperanto activists still engage in Volapük bashing even though Esperanto has leapfrogged Volapük to near-extinction over the course of a hundred years."

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