bashes
Hits very hard
Bashes is the plural of bash and the third-person singular verb form.
A bash is a hard blow or strike: He gave the door a few bashes with his shoulder.
To bash is to hit forcefully: She bashes the piñata.
A bash is also a lively party: They threw a birthday bash.
To bash someone verbally is to criticize harshly: The columnist bashes politicians daily.
Organized social gatherings
- festivitiesCelebratory events and activities
- galasElaborate festive gatherings
- soireesFormal evening parties
- shindigsBoisterous social gatherings
fetes · get-togethers · receptions · gatherings · jamborees · hoedowns · mixers · blowouts
parties
Organized social gatherings
- festivitiesCelebratory events and activities
- galasElaborate festive gatherings
- soireesFormal evening parties
shindigs · fetes · get-togethers · receptions · gatherings · jamborees · hoedowns · mixers · blowouts · raves
hits
Blows or successes
thumps · whacks · clobbers · slugs · swats · smacks · beats · batters · hammers · pummels
slams
Forceful closings or criticisms
pans · attacks · rips · hammers · savages · blasts · condemns · denounces · lambasts · berates
- smash wordsslams, shatters, breaks, crushes, cracks
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- spectaclesfirework display, spectacles, northern lights, show, extravaganzas
bashespraises
Verbally commends
lauds · extols · acclaims · celebrates · commends
bashesgalas
Elaborate festive gatherings
soirées · receptions · ceremonies · wakes · funerals
- birthday bashCelebration of birth anniversary
- bash inDestroy by impact
- have a bash
- bashed aboutStruck repeatedly, roughly handled
- beer bashInformal drinking party
- gay bashingAttacking perceived homosexuals
bash, bashful, bashing, bashed, bashfulness, abashed, abash, basher, bashfully