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Bash   /bæʃ/   Listen
noun
Bash  n.  
1.
A forceful blow, especially one that does damage to its target.
2.
A elaborate or lively social gathering or party.


verb
Bash  v. t. & v. i.  To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. (Obs.) "His countenance was bold and bashed not."


Bash  v. t.  (past & past part. bashed; pres. part. bashing)  To strike heavily; to beat; to crush. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.) "Bash her open with a rock."





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"Bash" Quotes from Famous Books



... he came to report, "it is a truthful record of a certain kind of morbid, egotistical personality that unfortunately does exist. But I can't understand why you care to read it; for, thank God! Sally Lunn, you and Bash haven't ...
— Dear Enemy • Jean Webster
... he tell his children?" Yoritomo asked rhetorically. "Why, first he tells them how tigers are killed. You walk up to one and bash it on the head. But then he warns his little Nipelets that there is an animal around that looks just like a tiger, but it is not a tiger. One should not make the mistake of thinking it is a tiger or one will get oneself badly hurt. Now, since the ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... want to hear," said Dickenson. "Go on—the Boer raised his rifle to bash it down ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... hiccupped Tom, reeling back from the collision and catching Heathcote by the arm. "Got yer, young gem'n! and I'll bash yer!" ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed
... conceived that a compromise would be the wisest plan, and giving them a few rupees, I desired them to make the most they could out of them. Off they went highly delighted with the results of the interview, clapping their orator on the back, crying out sh[a]bash, sh[a]bash, bravo, bravo, and evidently believing the gift of the rupees as entirely due to the eloquence of their comrade. They are a simple people with all their savage characteristics, but it is very sad to contemplate a whole nation as ...
— A Peep into Toorkisthhan • Rollo Burslem


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