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Criticizes Viciously

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noun

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

• a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

• the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

verb

• tear or be torn violently

• move precipitously or violently

• cut (wood) along the grain

• take without the owner's consent

• criticize or abuse strongly and violently

49%6Viciously criticizes, informally
noun

• a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

• a small piece of cloth

verb

• tear into shreds

28%6 Reprimand viciously, in slang
noun

• an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane

verb

• attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane

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