to bastinado
- verb
- /ˌbæstəˈnɑːdoʊ/
- Offensive
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someter a bastinado
- It was common in some ancient societies to bastinado prisoners as a means of extracting confessions.
Examples
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The guards threatened to bastinado anyone who disobeyed the rules.
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He was bastinadoed for refusing to cooperate.
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Despite its brutality, some regimes continued to bastinado offenders into the twentieth century.
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The soldiers bastinadoed the captured enemy.
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It was common in some ancient societies to bastinado prisoners as a means of extracting confessions.
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Despite its brutality, some regimes continued to bastinado offenders into the twentieth century.
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The guards threatened to bastinado anyone who disobeyed the rules.
Synonyms
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4.1
To attack someone by hitting them again and again to hurt them
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3.2
To hit something or someone hard and repeatedly
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7.6
Hit someone many times until they are badly hurt or win against them very clearly
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6.5
Hit someone hard, often as punishment or in a fight
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9.9
To hit yourself or another person with a whip as punishment, often for religious reasons
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9.5
To hit someone repeatedly and very hard
Hit someone many times so they become badly hurt
How Violent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bastinado comes from Spanish and Portuguese words for a 'stick', like bastón and bastão, and it originally described the act of beating the soles of someone's feet with a stick. So to bastinado someone is to punish them by striking the soles of their feet.