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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

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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