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present participle and gerund of bashform-ofgerundparticiple
bashing
'bæʃiŋ4 senses · 62 ms
Level C2
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An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
- I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’
- Jean-Claude Juncker has called for an end to “Russia-bashing” two months after scores of Moscow’s diplomats across the EU were expelled in response to the use of a nerve agent in the UK.