Meaning

4 senses
  1. (informal)To strike heavily; to beat.

    The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.

    If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer.

    колоти́тьkolotítʹ, поколоти́тьpokolotítʹ, битьbitʹ

  2. (informal)To collide; used with into or together.

    Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.

  3. (informal, transitive)To criticize harshly.

    He bashed my ideas.

    bashen

    критикова́тьkritikovátʹ, раскритикова́тьraskritikovátʹ

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To abash (make ashamed)

More definitions
  • hit hard

Examples

28 sentences
  1. The robber bashed her head in.

    ruГрабитель разбил ей голову.

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  2. Tom got his head bashed in.

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  3. Tom bashed his head against the wall.

    deTom schlug seinen Kopf gegen die Wand.

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  4. Tom bashed Mary's head against the wall.

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  5. Bish bash bosh, we managed it.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
to strike:
to criticize:
Deutsch
to criticize:

Origin

From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to

From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)

From Middle English baschen, baissen. See abash.

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Forms

bashes, bashing, bashed, bashed
Base formbash · to bash
3rd person singularbashes
Present participlebashing
Past simplebashed
Past participlebashed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybash
he, she, itbashes

Past simpleLesson

all personsbashed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bashed
he, she, ithas bashed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bash

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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