Basted vs Bashed - What's the difference?
basted | bashed |
(baste)
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=June 14, author=J.F. Pirro, title=Custom Work, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later. }}
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
(by extension) To coat over something
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=April 20, author=Peter Margasak, title=Almost Famous, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase. }}
To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
* Samuel Pepys
(bash)
To strike heavily.
To collide.
To criticize harshly.
A large party; gala event.
An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.
To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
* Spenser
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As verbs the difference between basted and bashed
is that basted is past tense of baste while bashed is past tense of bash.basted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*baste
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(bast)citation
Etymology 2
.Verb
(bast)citation
Etymology 3
Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian source. Compare (etyl) (whence (etyl) ). Compare also (etyl) and (etyl)Verb
(bast)- One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
Anagrams
* ----bashed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*bash
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), akin to Swedish .Verb
(es)Noun
(es)- They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
Derived terms
* bashmentEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m). See (abash).Verb
- His countenance was bold and bashed not.
