All lash synonyms

verb lash

• knock — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• pummel — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
• chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
• buffet — A buffet is a meal of cold food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves from the table.
• smack — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
• batter — If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
• scold — to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
• castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
• berate — If you berate someone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong.
• lam — to beat; thrash.
• pound — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
• scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
• hammer — Armand, 1898–1990, U.S. businessman and art patron.
• flay — to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
• strap — a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
• dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
• strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
• baste — If you baste meat, you pour hot fat and the juices from the meat itself over it while it is cooking.
• flagellate — to whip; scourge; flog; lash.
• thrash — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
• hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• whale — any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
• flog — to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
• lather — a worker who puts up laths.
• horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
• blister — A blister is a painful swelling on the surface of your skin. Blisters contain a clear liquid and are usually caused by heat or by something repeatedly rubbing your skin.
• jaw — a swelling wave of water; billow.
• ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
• belabor — If you say that someone belabors the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way.
• lampoon — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
• abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
• upbraid — to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice.
• lambaste — to beat or whip severely.
• fulminate — to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
• satirize — to attack or ridicule with satire.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• belt — A belt is a strip of leather or cloth that you fasten round your waist.
• punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
• whip — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
• pummelled — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
• shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
• jerk — to move with a quick, sharp motion; move spasmodically.
• twitch — to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck: She twitched him by the sleeve.
• thump — a blow with something thick and heavy, producing a dull sound; a heavy knock.
• whisk — to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke: She whisked everything off the table with her arm.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.