"bash about" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bashes about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bashing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bashed about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bashed about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "bash about (third-person singular simple present bashes about, present participle bashing about, simple past and past participle bashed about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, E. Ann Kaplan, Rocking Around the Clock, page 61",
          "text": "Deafening sounds drive out the words, and the performers leap violently about the stage, often bashing about their instruments and microphones.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To physically damage something or assault someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-bash_about-en-verb-SGuSAy6z",
      "links": [
        [
          "damage",
          "damage"
        ],
        [
          "assault",
          "assault"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, transitive) To physically damage something or assault someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bash about"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bashes about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bashing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bashed about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bashed about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "bash about (third-person singular simple present bashes about, present participle bashing about, simple past and past participle bashed about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, E. Ann Kaplan, Rocking Around the Clock, page 61",
          "text": "Deafening sounds drive out the words, and the performers leap violently about the stage, often bashing about their instruments and microphones.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To physically damage something or assault someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "damage",
          "damage"
        ],
        [
          "assault",
          "assault"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, transitive) To physically damage something or assault someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bash about"
}