Bash \Bash\, v. 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 \Bash\, v. 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.
Bash her open with a rock. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Bash \Bash\, n. 1. a forceful blow, especially one that does damage to its target. [PJC]
2. a elaborate or lively social gathering or party. [PJC]
Chairman Roger B. Smith say goodbye to hundreds of friends at an opulent bash featuring smoked duck and $120-a-bottle champagne.
Can't bash our voters with the longest recession since the 1930s, falling house prices, negative equity, unemployment and then make them pay university fees for their kids.
New York jeweler Stan Silberstein was on hand for the guild's 5 p.m. bash.
John Cushman, who recently completed a 21-story office building in Burbank, Calif., threw a big bash there earlier this month for 550 real-estate brokers and prospective tenants.
The bicentennial bash in honor of the French Revolution peaked with a parade that featured moonwalking Americans, Scottish bagpipers, Soviet tanks spewing confetti and a touching reminder of the crackdown in China.
Friday's multimillion-dollar bash, featuring a military parade and air show, was expected to attract top officials from Nicaragua to North Korea.
That, of course, lets him indirectly bash Sen. Dole as well.
The bash will begin with a dinner Wednesday night and continue with product demonstrations Thursday and Friday at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
So, to deliver on their promise to "maximize shareholder value," Gillette is gambling on Sensor, which will be announced Tuesday at a bash at New York's Pierre Hotel.
This September, Gannett Co. will throw a big bash for USA Today.
King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV ordered the bash for Friday through Tuesday to celebrate his 70th birthday on July 4.
The Arab uprising has cast a shadow over Israel's yearlong 40th anniversary bash, with American director Woody Allen, poet Allen Ginsberg and tennis ace Chris Evert among celebrities who turned down invitations.
The U.S. ambassador got hearty cheers instead of angry jeers when he showed up for the unification bash in Berlin.
It's no coincidence, either, that the first group to rush forward yesterday to bash the Vice President was Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, which has appointed itself to the task of stoking up scares of this and that.
A wild bash celebrating the 100th anniversary of the cherished cable cars 15 years ago was so much fun, San Francisco is doing it again.
"We didn't come here to celebrate anybody's birthday bash," Springsteen told a news conference.
The country's wild pre-Lenten bash came to a close in Rio, the unofficial carnival capital, after four balls and huge street parties that attracted thousands of city residents despite periodic thunderstorms.
The frisky creatures also scrape loose metal flashing and bash in relatively fragile dock boxes.
The dreaded income-tax deadline is here, but some folks headed for the midnight mail will also be given a chance to bash a used car, gobble headache powder, sip coffee or nibble frozen yogurt.
"Kids are always into what the industry calls `crash and bash,'" says Richard Grey, Tyco's chairman.
"I'm going to work as hard as I can to make Vice President George Bush the next president of the United States," President Reagan said at last night's President's Dinner, a black-tie fundraising bash for GOP supporters.
Last-minute taxpayers may find some consolation in free coffee and headache powders, frozen yogurt or the chance to bash an old car when they head out to mail their tax returns Friday in cities nationwide.
But Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., said Republican plans to bash Democrats for not offering a deficit-cutting plan would backfire. He said the public realizes it is the president's responsibility to offer a budget.
They are simply a good excuse for a large number of cronies to have a seasonal bash at the Dorchester at somebody else's expense.
The Peace Caucus held a four-hour seminar, then threw a bash for much of the congressional left.
However, Her Majesty's man in Madrid knows how to put people down and Bossano was not invited to Monday night's bash in honour of Kenneth Clarke, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer.
One winter, Mr. Galanis threw a memorable birthday bash in a Park City restaurant.
About two-thirds of the money was raised at Friday's celebrity bash, held at actor Robert DeNiro's Manhattan film production center, and at a reception at the home of movie executive Arthur Krim.
We are so accustomed to seeing modern plays bash power in all its forms that we easily miss the point of "Antigone," which is that political power has its necessities as well as its limits.
Merv Griffin, the talk show host turned real estate tycoon, christened the newly decorated International Ballroom of his Beverly Hilton Hotel with a celebrity bash.