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plural of bash
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chiefly British an effort to do or accomplish something while golf isn't my game, I had to give it a bash while at Saint Andrews in Scotland

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bashes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bash
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Recent Examples of bashes
Noun
The designer, who turned 76 on June 27, is known for her lavish birthday bashes. Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 In one iconic shot, Swift bashes in the hood of sports car in the mansion's motor court. Colson Thayer, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
Blades lop off body parts, while blunt force trauma breaks bones and bashes indentations in soft flesh. Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bashes
Noun
  • Rodgers took four sacks and three other hits, including multiple heavy blows.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Last March, Mariah The Scientist allegedly came to blows with Young Thug’s former lover, Cleopatra Dues, at an Atlanta lounge.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • How To Play Wordle Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Those seven tries produced zero first downs.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Usher, Meagan Good, and Jay-Z joined events that blended music, style, and philanthropy, reminding us just how many lanes the culture continues to dominate.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Movies are still big events, still consumed in long sittings, still treated as cultural monuments.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The steep new parking surcharge slams the brakes on that, hitting both visitors and the workers who would have served them.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Except Steven gets in a car wreck in episode two of season three, and trauma slams Belly and Jeremiah back together.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, Ted slaps him in the face, twice.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Anthony thinks his fiancé wants a mother more than a partner, so Giuseppe slaps a pie into his face?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When asked the question, the owl takes the lollipop and licks it three times before chomping down on its hard shell exterior and handing the stick back to the child.
    Moná Thomas, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The pair is seen crawling through a wildflower field, dancing, and jumping, but also hollering at each other, brandishing knives, and at some point, Lawrence licks a window with zeal.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Even as Russia attacks power plants, grids, and neighborhoods, Ukraine’s energy system has endured and adapted, becoming a decentralized network that keeps homes lit, factories running, and morale intact.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, on the opposite side, Eze attacks the space vertically — rather than diagonally behind the centre-backs — to be in Pedro Porro’s blindside as Munoz is carrying the ball forward.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, the move is not going as planned with Hungary and Slovakia resisting attempts to wean their economies of Russian oil.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Another person advised the woman to keep a record of all her ex-boyfriend’s attempts to contact her amid the dispute over the necklace.
    Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025

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