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Webster 1913 Edition


Bash

Bash

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[OE.
baschen
,
baissen
. See
Abash
.]
To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
[Obs.]
His countenance was bold and
bashed
not.
Spenser.

Bash

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bashed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bashing
.]
[Perh. of imitative origin; or cf. Dan.
baske
to strike,
bask
a blow, Sw.
basa
to beat,
bas
a beating.]
To strike heavily; to beat; to crush.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Hall Caine.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bash

BASH

,
Verb.
I.
[Heb.bosh, to be cast down, or confounded. See Abash.]
To be ashamed; to be confounded with shame.

Definition 2024


Bash

Bash

See also: bash

English

Acronym

Bash

  1. (computing) Name of the Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating system.
    Bash stands for Bourne-again shell.
  2. (computer languages) Scripting language provided with this interpreter.

Derived terms

Anagrams

bash

bash

See also: Bash

English

Verb

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

  1. To strike heavily.
    He bashed himself against the door.
    The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
  2. To collide.
    Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
  3. To criticize harshly.
    He bashed my ideas.
Translations

Noun

bash (plural bashes)

  1. A large party; gala event.
    They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
  2. An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English baschen, baissen. See abash.

Verb

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
    • Spenser
      His countenance was bold and bashed not.

Anagrams

References

  1. baske” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Albanian

Etymology

From earlier *balsha, a derivative of ballë.

Noun

bash m (indefinite plural bashë, definite singular bashi, definite plural bashët)

  1. (nautical) bow (of ship)
  2. main part (of something), center (of room or chamber)
Related terms

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bāsiō (I kiss). This is one of relatively few words for which the Daco-Romanian equivalent (in this case săruta) is not derived from the same Latin word.

Verb

bash (past participle bãshatã)

  1. I kiss.

Related terms

  • bãshari/bãshare
  • bãshat