baste[verb]Synonyms: beat, batter, belabor, drub, lambaste, paste, pelt, pummel, thrash, wallop, scold, bawl out, berate, bless out, chew out, lash, rail, tell off, tongue-lash, wig
Related Words: clobber,
larrup,
mill,
whip [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
baste /beɪst/
verb [intransitive and transitive][
Sense 1: Date: 1500-1600;
Origin: Origin unknown. ]
[
Sense 2: Date: 1400-1500;
Language: Old French;
Origin: bastir]
1. to pour liquid or melted fat over food that is cooking:
Baste the potatoes occasionally.2. to fasten cloth with long loose stitches, in order to hold it together so that you can
sew it later
Synonym : tack [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲