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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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Both characters possess a rapier wit, and lash out with reckless abandon, and both films wisely recognize their cynicism as a defense mechanism.
In particular, Western sexual freedom puts them under intolerable pressure, and they lash out in fury against us.
But if firefighting and family ultimately have no meaning or purpose, then why not lash out at the world?
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.
We as adults do not lash out at one another just because we don't do as each other wants.
I was expecting Stephen to lash out at her, but he just crumpled down to the floor, a single tear falling down his face.

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