All tongue-lash synonyms

verb tongue-lash

• lash — an ocean-going vessel equipped with special cranes and holds for lifting and stowing cargo-carrying barges that can be sailed up inland waterways or into port facilities from offshore.
• eat out — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
• berate — If you berate someone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong.
• carpet — A carpet is a thick covering of soft material which is laid over a floor or a staircase.
• wig — an artificial covering of hair for all or most of the head, of either synthetic or natural hair, worn to be stylish or more attractive.
• caning — a beating with a cane as a punishment
• lay down the law — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
• disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
• carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
• blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
• disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
• carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
• inveigh — to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words; rail (usually followed by against): to inveigh against isolationism.
• call on the carpet — (chiefly US) To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.
• lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
• chew out — If you chew someone out, you tell them off in a very angry way.
• have at — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
• exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
• castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
• go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• dress down — of or for a dress or dresses.
• chasten — If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
• call down — to request or invoke
• jaw — a swelling wave of water; billow.
• caned — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.