lambast
- v beat with a cane
- v censure severely or angrily
- Many men of good will attended, to hear Russians like Alexander Fadeyev, secretary general of the Union of Soviet Writers, lambast America.
- The boys lambast and then expose the trend for what it is, and everyone learns their lesson.
- Storey was talking in a day when newspapermen would not hesitate a minute to lambast the Establishment.