lash
I
(attack verbally) verb
admonish, animadvert upon, assail, berate, betongue, blackguard, cast reproach upon, castigate, chastise, chide, criticize severly, decry, excoriate, exprobrate, flay, fulminate against, impugn, increpate, inveigh, objurgate, rave against, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, revile, scarify, scathe, slate, take to task, upbraid, vilify, vilipend, vitupeiate
II
(strike) verb
bastinado, batter, beat, birch, bruise, cudgel, deal a blow to, deal a stroke, drub, flagellare, flagellate, flay, flog, fustigate, give a beating, give a thrashing, hit, larrup, maul, pelt, pound, pummel, scourge, slap, smite, switch, thrash, trounce, truncheon, verberare, whack
III
index
beat (strike), denounce (condemn), handcuff, inveigh, punish, reprehend, reprimand
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006