All English words - page 507

Meanings of Bastardise:

verb

Change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements.

Usage examples:

Our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it

Meanings of Bastardised:

verb

Change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements.

Usage examples:

Our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it

adjective

(of a version of something) lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements.

Usage examples:

By the 1760s, english cookery books were offering a bastardized version of french dishes

Meanings of Bastardising:

verb

Change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements.

Usage examples:

Our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it

Meanings of Bastardism:

noun

The fact or condition of being born out of wedlock; illegitimacy. also figurative: the state or condition of being mixed, adulterated, or debased; heterogeneity.

Meanings of Bastardize:

verb

Change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements.

Usage examples:

Our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it

Meanings of Bastardized:

adjective

(of a version of something) lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements.

Usage examples:

By the 1760s, english cookery books were offering a bastardized version of french dishes

verb

Change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements.

Usage examples:

Our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it

Meanings of Bastardizes:

verb

Change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements.

Usage examples:

Our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it

Meanings of Bastardizing:

verb

Change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements.

Usage examples:

Our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it

Meanings of Bastardliness:

noun

The character or quality of being bastardly; wilfully cruel, callous, or unfeeling behaviour or conduct.

Meanings of Bastardly:

adjective

Especially of a person, or his or her behaviour, etc.: like (that of) a bastard; specifically wilfully cruel, callous, or unfeeling.

adverb

Illegitimately.

Meanings of Bastardry:

noun

Cruel, despicable, or otherwise unpleasant behaviour.

Usage examples:

Blocking the debate was an act of political bastardry

Meanings of Bastards:

noun

An unpleasant or despicable person.

Usage examples:

He lied to me, the bastard!

adjective

(of a thing) no longer in its pure or original form; debased.

Usage examples:

A bastard darwinism

Meanings of Bastardy:

noun

The state of being born to parents who are not married to each other; illegitimacy.

Usage examples:

While bastardy was not always a bar to succession, it certainly made things more difficult

Meanings of Baste:

verb

Pour fat or juices over (meat) during cooking in order to keep it moist.

Usage examples:

Slip herbs under the skin and baste the chicken constantly

Meanings of Basted:

verb

Pour fat or juices over (meat) during cooking in order to keep it moist.

Usage examples:

Slip herbs under the skin and baste the chicken constantly

Meanings of Bastes:

verb

Pour fat or juices over (meat) during cooking in order to keep it moist.

Usage examples:

Slip herbs under the skin and baste the chicken constantly

Meanings of Basti:

noun

In persian-speaking contexts: a person seeking, or who has been granted, sanctuary or asylum; a refugee.

Meanings of Bastide:

noun

(in southern france) a country house.

Usage examples:

‘my dream is to buy a domaine in france,’ he says, sipping claret at his favourite table in london'…

Meanings of Bastille:

proper noun

A fortress in paris built in the 14th century and used in the 17th–18th centuries as a state prison. its storming by the mob on 14 july 1789 marked the start of the french revolution.

noun

A military building in paris that was used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries. in 1789 it was attacked by people who wanted revolution (= violent social and political change) in france, and this attack is regarded as being the start of the french revolution

Usage examples:

On 14th july the french celebrate the storming of the bastille.

Meanings of Bastillion:

noun

A small fortress or castle; a fortified tower.

Meanings of Bastinade:

noun

A blow with a stick, cane, or similar weapon; a beating delivered in this way. also (with the): beating of this sort used as a form of corporal punishment.

verb

To beat or thrash (a person) with a stick, cane, or similar weapon, especially on the soles of the feet; = "bastinado".

Meanings of Bastinading:

noun

The action or an act of beating or thrashing a person with a stick, cane, or similar weapon, especially on the soles of the feet; beating of this sort used as a form of corporal punishment or torture.

Meanings of Bastinado:

noun

A form of punishment or torture that involved caning the soles of someone's feet.

Usage examples:

One favourite method was the grisly bastinado: turning a slave upside down and beating the soles of…

verb

Punish or torture (someone) by caning the soles of their feet.

Usage examples:

The prisoners were bastinadoed frequently in his presence

Meanings of Bastinadoed:

verb

Punish or torture (someone) by caning the soles of their feet.

Usage examples:

The prisoners were bastinadoed frequently in his presence

noun

A form of punishment or torture that involved caning the soles of someone's feet.

Usage examples:

One favourite method was the grisly bastinado: turning a slave upside down and beating the soles of…

Meanings of Bastinadoes:

verb

Punish or torture (someone) by caning the soles of their feet.

Usage examples:

The prisoners were bastinadoed frequently in his presence

noun

A form of punishment or torture that involved caning the soles of someone's feet.

Usage examples:

One favourite method was the grisly bastinado: turning a slave upside down and beating the soles of…