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What does lash out mean?

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Verb
  1. To make a sudden violent attack.
  2. To make a fierce verbal attack.
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Executives would issue denials, lash out at critics, and rush someone to the offending supplier's factory to put out the fire before it spread.
Both characters possess a rapier wit, and lash out with reckless abandon, and both films wisely recognize their cynicism as a defense mechanism.
Democratization also may embolden formerly subjugated groups to lash out at their one-time oppressors.
But if firefighting and family ultimately have no meaning or purpose, then why not lash out at the world?
We as adults do not lash out at one another just because we don't do as each other wants.
Very often these patients can be confused and disorientated and can lash out and hospital security staff need to get involved.

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