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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bash out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To write or type something very quickly, without much thought.
    • I've got about an hour in which to bash something out for the morning edition.
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To play (a tune) clumsily on a piano or similar instrument.
    • Well, by the mid-'70s Patti Smith really couldn't help it: she was bashing out guitar feedback, copping Keith Richards stances, and screaming out raw poetry laced with surreal images. 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 348:

Forms

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bashing out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bashed out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bashed out Tense=Past lexicographic
bashes out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic