Usually means: Harshly criticizing or scolding someone.
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  1. lambasting: Merriam-Webster
  2. lambasting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lambasting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lambasting, lambasting: Wordnik
  5. lambasting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lambasting: Wiktionary
  7. lambasting: Dictionary.com
  8. lambasting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. lambasting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lambasting: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  A harsh reprimand.
▸ noun:  A beating or thrashing.

Similar:
chew out, chide, bawl out, berate, dress down, scold, chew up, flog, rag, have words, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, applaud, commend

Adjectives:
critical, verbal, good, tight, thorough, severe, terrific, awful, fine, public, terrible

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Similar:
chew out, chide, bawl out, berate, dress down, scold, chew up, flog, rag, have words, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, applaud, commend

Adjectives:
critical, verbal, good, tight, thorough, severe, terrific, awful, fine, public, terrible



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