lambaste

Other forms of lambaste

past tense

lambasted·

present participle

lambasting·

third person

lambastes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lambaste

What does lambaste mean?

lambaste means "beat with a cane". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lambaste?

lambaste has 2 syllables: lam-baste. The stress falls on "baste". In IPA it is /ˌlæmˈbæst/.

What is another word for lambaste?

Close synonyms include cane, flog, lambast, call on the carpet, take to task. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lambaste a common word?

lambaste is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lambaste?

1 word rhymes with lambaste. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.