beat up, work over, beat - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
2.
lambaste - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
brush down, tell off - reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off"
criticise, criticize, pick apart, knock - find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"
lambaste
verb
1. Informal. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:
I often use the "ink" that TAPPI generously gives me to lambaste incompetent management in our industry, so you may be surprised at whose feet I lay the "Outsourcing Problem." The media and advocates of labor have deluged us with all sorts of imagined villains as the cause of outsourcing, with CEOs riding around in limousines being a favorite target.
lambaste - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"