bash
/bæʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.81 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.
Example Sentences
- "The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim."
- "If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer."
- "It was planned that the sick men were to crawl over and simultaneously seize the fire-arms and bash us with them while the women flung themselves upon the trackers."
- "It isn't the creature's fault that it bashed its head against a tree outside our hole."
- "Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley."
- "The bulls backed apart and ran together, tusks clashing — Ed held his trunk down while Conrad curled his high over his head, out of the way of Ed's tusks as the faces bashed together."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- Obsolete
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
bash about
bash in
bash into shape
bash out
bash someone's face in
bash someone's head
bash someone's skull
bash the bishop