baste
[verb]
Synonyms: beat, batter, belabor, drub, lambaste, paste, pelt, pummel, thrash, wallop, scold, bawl out, berate, bless out, chew out, lash, rail, tell off, tongue-lash, wig

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Related Words: clobber, larrup, mill, whip

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

baste /beɪst/ verb [intransitive and transitive]
[Sense 1: Date: 1500-1600; Origin: Origin unknown. ]
[Sense 2: Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: bastir]

1. to pour liquid or melted fat over food that is cooking:
Baste the potatoes occasionally.

2. to fasten cloth with long loose stitches, in order to hold it together so that you can sew it later Synonym : tack

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲