bash

1. (informal) To strike heavily.Examples: "The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim."; "If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer."; "It isn't the creature's fault that it bashed its head against a tree outside our hole."informal

2. (informal) To collide; used with into or together.Examples: "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."informal

3. (transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.Examples: "He bashed my ideas."; "The entertainment industry, the artistic community, and much of the educational establishment, which so profoundly influence American culture, relentlessly assault religion, promote promiscuity, encourage illegitimacy, and bash America."; "This is consistent with new research about to be published by Tax Justice UK that found that, when making the case for a more progressive tax system, bashing the wealthy resonated far less well with voters than specific arguments about closing loopholes and increasing particular taxes."informaltransitive