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lash

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To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

  • We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. John Dryden

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The word 'lash' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a stroke or a strong hit or blow, or to a whip or a whip used as a punishment. For example: He felt a sharp lash across his back as the whip struck him.

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When they feel humiliated, they often lash out aggressively or even violently".

Tropical cyclone Nathan has made landfall in the Northern Territory as gale-force winds lash the northeast Arnhem Land coast.

The striker is petulant in the extreme and on another day might have seen red himself after off-the-ball incidents in which he was seen to lash out at Nicola Legrottaglie and swear at the referee, Stefano Farina.

Both found it absurd that a city that had once built and run its own schools, hospitals, museums, transportation and social services should languish under the lash of Whitehall.

Dad, unable to get words out, would lash out at me or Mum.

It's advice he might, perhaps, consider useful the next time he wants to lash out at The X Factor, or Cheryl: "Please learn to take rejection.

The prices for the 20 rooms range from $240 to $480 a night and the wind and rain can lash you even during the Tasmanian summer, but the pumphouse feels like a suitably plush refuge from the elements.

This fear can also make them lash out, become desperate to please or cause them to play the victim.

I didn't quite do what Dai did to be honest … I had three nights on the lash, hard!" he says falling about laughing.

Giving Ulysses the rope with which to lash himself to the mast adds to his choices.But Glen Whitman, of California State University, has doubts.

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It's a lash-out that stems from a false place due to a lack of research into the work I've been doing over the last year," he said.

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