Definition of Lash out

1. Verb. Attack in speech or writing. "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"


Definition of Lash out

1. Verb. To suddenly attack violently ¹

2. Verb. To make a fierce verbal attack ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lash Out

laserless
laserlike
laserproof
laserpuncture
lasers
laserwort
laserworts
lases
lash
lash-curler
lash-up
lash curler
lash down
lash line
lash lines
lash out
lash together
lash up
lashed
lashed out
lasher
lashers
lashes
lashes out
lashing out
lashingly
lashings
lashins
lashkar

Literary usage of Lash out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... Do their week-day's work, and pray Skip ana trip it on the green, 5 Devoutly on the holy-day: lash out at a country feast And help to choose the . ..."

2. The Flyers of the Hunt by John Mills (1859)
"How often," continued he, " has your father pretended he was going to lash out in the same way; and when I was a little egg-sucking boy, your grandam would ..."

3. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"lash out, vn to kick out as a horse ; kick over the traces physically or ... "Neither his treasure can be spent, how much so ever he lash out."—LAT. Serm. ..."

4. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"LARNIN, Learning. LASH, To comb the hair. 2. To lash out, to kick. ... I might likewise expatiate and lash out in proving unto you, how they did drinke ..."

5. Dialect of Craven, in the Westriding of the County of York: With a Copious by William Carr (1828)
"To lash out, to kick. " He lash'd out baath his fit." 3. ... I might likewise expatiate and lash out in proving unto you, how they did drinke sometimes one ..."

6. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon, Louis Francoi̧s Fain (1821)
"To lash out in expenses , т. n. faire une depense excessive , faire de folles depenses , prodiguer ... To lash out into expressions, parler trap, causer. ..."

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