Lash

English

Noun

Lash (plural Lashes)

1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
2. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
3. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
4. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
5. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

Verb

Lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)

1. (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
2. (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
3. (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
4. (transitive) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
5. (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
6. (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
7. (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.

Adjective

Lash (comparative more Lash, superlative most Lash)

1. Soft, watery, wet.
2. (Mid-Ulster, Northern Ireland) excellent, wonderful
3. Drunk.

Adjectives for Lash

drooping; burning; sweeping; sooty; dark; arrowy; invisible; sleepy; scattered (plural); fluttering; glistening; torturing; flickering; stinging; inky; silky; languid; bristly; downcast; molten; delicate; pale; long; flaxen; biting; verbal,

Adverbs for Lash

viciously; furiously; frenziedly; maniacally; vilely; brutally; sadistically; murderously; madly.

Thesaurus

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