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la shing

  • n  beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
  • n  rope that is used for fastening something to something else
    the boats were held together by lashings
  • v  beat severely with a whip or rod
  • v  lash or flick about sharply
  • v  strike as if by whipping
  • v  bind with a rope, chain, or cord
  • s  violently urging on by whipping or flogging
    looked at the lashing riders

  • French General Jean-Rene Bachelet, leader of French peacekeeping force in Sarajevo is called back to Paris for a tongue-lashing after Bachelet criticizes the terms of the Dayton .
  • For months he had flung lashing tangles of color onto canvases laid across the floorliterally slapdash, yet as intricately woven as a Persian rug, his pictures pointed the way .
  • To this day, I don't know how he withstood the things he did without lashing back.
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  • Jason London in New York Daily News
    Jeremy's behavior right now is indicative of whenever he's back on drugs,London's twin brother, Jason, told People.com. "The fact that he's lashing out against his own family and has shut us out is just one more sign of how sick he really...
  • Tom Lantos in The Age
    It took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-tech titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo had helped send to jail,Lantos said in a statement. "Today's...
  • Husain Haqqani in Forbes
    They should not look at the sledgehammer approach because the people of Pakistan are not America's enemies, and any lashing out may create more enemies of the United States there,Haqqani said.

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