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  1. to criticize someone or something severely: His first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics. Synonym. berate formal. Compare. rebuke verb formal. chide formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Chastising & rebuking. admonishingly. admonitory. barracking. bawl. carpet. earbashing. keelhaul. lecture. pull someone up. punchbag.

  2. Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense lambasts , present participle lambasting , past tense, past participle lambasted regional note: in AM, usually use lambaste (læmbeɪst ) verb. If you lambast someone, you criticize them severely, usually in public. [formal]

  3. 1. : to assault violently : beat, whip. 2. : to attack verbally : censure. critics lambasted his performance. Did you know?

  4. verb. censure severely or angrily. synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scathe, scold, take to task, trounce, vituperate. see more.

  5. to criticize someone or something severely: His first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics. Synonym. berate formal. Compare. rebuke verb formal. chide formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Chastising & rebuking. admonishingly. admonitory. barracking. bawl. carpet. earbashing. keelhaul. lecture. pull someone up. punchbag.

  6. lambast - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

  7. Lambast definition: to beat or whip severely. See examples of LAMBAST used in a sentence.

  8. Definition of lambast verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  9. 1. to beat or whip severely. 2. to reprimand or berate harshly; censure; excoriate. Also: lambast. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Word origin. [ 1630–40; appar. lam1 + baste3]

  10. A complete guide to the word "LAMBAST": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.