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• 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.

• whipping
• tanning
• flogging
• flagellation
• flog
• welt
• whip
• lather
• lash
• slash
• strap
• trounce

• unlash

News & Articles

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• Should the Saints defense be called into the principal's office? -- Gerry V podcast
  Does the front seven need a pep talk, a tongue lashing, a retooling, or what?
  June 10, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
• 'Nuclear Strike': IRS Worker Blasts Lerner For Blaming Ohio Office
  An IRS agent in the embattled Cincinnati office is lashing out at the agency's managers for pinning the blame on them for the targeting of conservative groups, describing one official's attempt to pass the blame as a 'nuclear strike on us.' Misfired Email Alerted DC Officials to IRS Targeting IRS and EPA Compete for Most Bizarre Scandal in Washington
  June 7, 2013 - Fox News
• Kim Kardashian slams paparazzi for endangering the life of her and her unborn child
  Kim Kardashian is lashing out at paparazzi after a photographer allegedly threatened to make her world “dangerous to live in” after she blocked photogs from snapping her picture. read more
  June 7, 2013 - TheCelebrityCafe.com

Quotes

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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.