1Strike hard and violently.

1. 1.1Criticize severely.
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   • ‘a remark bashing the Belgian brewing industry’
   • ‘Critics also bashed the law for limiting access to information and privacy.’
   • ‘Critics who bash such films as Happy Times as being heavy-handed misinterpret the key differences between Eastern and Western cinema.’
   • ‘The critics who bash Harrington the most tend to overlook the problems Detroit has had with its passing game since his arrival.’
   • ‘At the same time, Bush's remarks were bashed by scientists and advocates for the separation of church and state.’
   • ‘So Peter Beinart is the New Republic editor who is getting beat on by Michelle Malkin for remarks he made bashing a bunch of talk radio guys going to Iraq.’
   • ‘If Metallica's Lars Ulrich paused from bashing Napster to cogently denounce the Iraq war - as Wino has capably done - we would revise our opinion of the man.’
   • ‘Wendy was busy inventing new insults with which to bash Nats.’
   • ‘I expect I'll see his writings on the topic about the same time that he links to one of the critics who have disagreed with his posts bashing Kass and the Council.’
   • ‘The source said Mr Mandelson had been referring to Mr Chirac when he criticised the tactic of ‘constantly bashing Brussels’.’
   • ‘There's nothing the London theatre critics like more than to bash Edinburgh's hyped-up hits once they reach the southern capital.’
   • ‘For the past ten minutes of lunch, he'd been indiscriminately bashing anything worth insulting, and he'd made even the more conservative among us laugh.’
   • ‘Yet even knee deep in slush, Kelly soldiers on, bashing errant boyfriends, railing against the media machine and tapping an expansive geyser of teenage venom.’
   • ‘This success has caused Sun to put more and more emphasis on services - a strategy it had typically shied away from, preferring to bash IBM's services attack instead.’
   • ‘A mysterious Internet Web site suddenly appeared, replete with altered newspaper headlines bashing Gardner and other union critics who were running for the board.’
   • ‘U.S. efforts to bash Beijing reveal a remarkable ignorance about economics.’
   • ‘Although not a lawyer himself, he's made a remarkable career out of bashing the profession.’
   • ‘Just as academe got bashed for appropriating jazz, this show will face criticism for its heady approach.’
   • ‘I for one, am hoping to see better posts, less attacks and bashing and more concerns for the topic matter.’
   Synonyms

   vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult, slight, attack, speak badly of, speak ill of, speak evil of, pour scorn on, criticize, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, pillory, lambast

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1A heavy blow.

2A party or social event.