LASH

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lash I. substantiv

1. lotitură de bici; şfichi; şfichiuitură de bici; partea biciului cu care se loveşte;

under the lash a) suferind pedeapsă corporală; b) (fig.) îndurând o cenzură severă; supus unei critici nemiloase, flagelat, biciuit de o critică tăioasă / muşcătoare;

(fam.) to be under the lash of criticism a fi expus loviturilor criticii, a fi bicluit prin critica.

lash II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a biciui; a lovi cu biciul (un cal etc.);

(despre ploaie) to lash the windows a bate în geamuri;

(despre valuri) to lash the shore a izbi / a lovi ţărmul;

(despre balenă etc.) to lash the sea a bate apa cu coada.

2. (fig.) a excita puternic, a stârni; a provoca (cu violenţă);

to lash smb. to fury by one's remarks a înfuria pe cineva prin observaţiile făcute.

3. (despre animale) a mişca încoace şi încolo;

to lash its tail a(-şi) mişca coada, a da din coadă.

4. (fig.) a biciui, a critica violent, a critica aspru, a flagela, a stigmatiza, a înfiera, a satiriza (viciile etc.);

to lash smb. with one's tongue a adresa cuiva cuvinte muşcătoare/ tăioase, a adresa cuiva reproşuri neîndurătoare;

to lash smb. with one's pen a infiera pe cineva în scris.

5. a ataşa; a lega cu o fringhie / cu un odgon etc.; (mar.) a prinde (ancora);

to lash one piece to another a lega o bucată de alta.

lash II. verb B. reflexiv

to lash oneself into a fury a izbucni, a se înfuria grozav.

lash II. verb C. intranzitiv

1. a face mişcări repezi şi violente.

2. (fig.) a izbucni într-un potop de cuvinte violente.

3. (despre ploaie etc.) a cădea violent.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It’s a common enough lash.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But an officer does not have the lash hung over his head.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On either side the deck, against the rail and bottoms up, were lashed a number of small boats.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Every urge of his being impelled him to spring upon the pack that cried at his heels, but it was the will of the gods that this should not be; and behind the will, to enforce it, was the whip of cariboo-gut with its biting thirty-foot lash.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

And I, too, said, 'Let us go on.' For that one thought, laid upon me like a lash for every mile of fifteen hundred miles, had burned itself into my soul, and I think that I, too, was mad. Besides, we could only go on, for there was no grub.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

But I affirm that you are: so much depressed that a few more words would bring tears to your eyes—indeed, they are there now, shining and swimming; and a bead has slipped from the lash and fallen on to the flag.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Once in the hollow, he had got behind the horse and had struck a light; but the creature frightened at the sudden glare, and with the strange instinct of animals feeling that some mischief was intended, had lashed out, and the steel shoe had struck Straker full on the forehead.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we had noticed during the day.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And when he made that he was weak of his sickness, and stumbled and walked not so fast as they walked, they laid their lashes upon him till he screamed with pain and discovered new strength.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on one corner of the bed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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