lambaste
lam
(ムチで打つ、殴る) +
baste
(激しく殴る)
(also
lambast
)
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verb
with object
criticize
(someone or something)
harshly
:
⦅くだけて⦆ «…だと/…のことで» …をこき下ろす, 攻撃する «as/for»
e.g.
they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth.
ORIGIN
mid
17th century
(in the sense ‘
beat
,
thrash
’): from
lam
1 +
baste
3. The current sense dates from the late
19th century
.