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- Dictionarybash/baʃ/
verb
- 1. strike hard and violently: "they bashed him over the head with a blunt object"
noun
- 1. a heavy blow: "a bash on the head" Similar
- 2. a party or social event: "a birthday bash" Similar
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BASH definition: 1. to hit hard: 2. to criticize someone severely: 3. a party: . Learn more.
The meaning of BASH is to strike violently : hit; also : to injure or damage by striking : smash —often used with in. How to use bash in a sentence.
A bash is a party or celebration, especially a large one held by an official organization or attended by famous people. [ informal ] He threw one of the biggest showbiz bashes of the year.
1. ( tr) to strike violently or crushingly. 2. ( tr; often foll by in, down, etc) to smash, break, etc, with a crashing blow: to bash a door down. 3. (foll by: into) to crash (into); collide (with): to bash into a lamppost.
Definition of bash verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Dating back to the 1600s, the simple verb bash is “to hit something with force.”. It’s equivalent with the words strike and beat. The use of bash for “a wild party” appears as slang by at least the 1940s.
To bash is to hit something hard. You might stand up suddenly on a sailboat and bash your head on the mast. Marching band drummers bash their drums with mallets, and terrible drivers bash their bumpers into trees. You can also figuratively bash another person by saying terribly critical things about her.
