lash
Meaning of lash
noun
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- (of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
lash a pack on a horse's back
- Remiss, lax.
- Relaxed.
- Soft, watery, wet.
- Excellent, wonderful
That Chinese (food) was lash!
- Drunk.
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Hyphenation of lash
lash
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- lash is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
lash synonyms
Meaning eyelash:
Meaning thong:
Meaning whip:
Meaning flog:
flog, welt, whip, lather, slash, strap, trounce
Meaning :
berate, blameworthy, lax, neglectful, negligent, reprehensible, spongy, squidgy
Translation of lash
- German: peitschen, Wimper
- French: fouetter, cil
- Spanish: azotar, pestaña
- Italian: frustare, ciglio
- Portuguese: chicotear, pestana, cílio
Anagrams of lash
Words that rhyme with lash
Lash, calash, blash, halliblash, clash, interclash, belash, eyelash, whitelash, antiflash, backflash, flash, multiflash, newsflash, outflash, photoflash, reflash, sideflash, synchroflash, thunderflash, upflash, antibacklash, backlash, unlash, Polash, backsplash, besplash, oversplash, plash, splash, taplash, upsplash, whiplash, overlash, pearlash, underlash, backslash, beslash, reslash, slash, Whitlash, cutlash, frontlash, outlash, throatlash, goulash, gulash
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