Gay-bashing (=attacks on gay people) is on the increase.
殴打同性恋者的事件越来越多。
give somebody a bashing
They gave him a real bashing.
他们狠狠地打了他一顿。
2strong and usually unfair public criticism of a particular group or person 抨击,猛烈的批评
union-bashing in the right-wing press
右翼报纸上对工会的抨击
Examples from the Corpus
bashing• One of the reputations that has taken a bit of a bashing is Sigismond Thalberg's.• I would be grateful if your last issues are full of Private Eye and Ian Hislop bashing - the smug munchkin.• As Trofim Denosovich Lysenko well knew, more than a little bashing is required to undermine the integrity of science.