Lambasted delinquent youth about skin condition (7)
I believe the answer is:
trashed
'lambasted' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'delinquent youth about skin condition' is the wordplay.
'delinquent youth' becomes 'ted' (member of the Teddy Boy subculture).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'skin condition' becomes 'rash' (I've seen this in another clue).
'ted' enclosing 'rash' is 'TRASHED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for trashed that I've seen before include "Criticised" , "Vandalised" , "Destroyed" , "completely taken apart" .)