castigate

verb · adjectiveB2

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verb
V_es/s
castigates
V_ing/Gerund
castigating
V_ed/pp
castigated
  1. 1.

    (formal, transitive)To punish or reprimand someone severely.

    Đồng nghĩa: rebuke, reprimand, chasten, chastise, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, blame, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, castigate, censure, charge, chastise, chew out, chide, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, derogate, dispraise, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, fulminate, get at, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's guts for garters, have someone's head, have someone's hide, give it to someone, give someone what for, give what for, gruel, malavogue, nail someone to the wall, penalize, penance, punish, tan someone's hide, tar out, teach someone a lesson

  2. 2.

    (formal, transitive)To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.

    Đồng nghĩa: condemn, lambaste, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, blame, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, castigate, censure, charge, chastise, chew out, chide, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, derogate, dispraise, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, fulminate, get at, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate

  3. 3.

    (rare, transitive)To revise or make corrections to a publication.

    Đồng nghĩa: correct, revise

Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more castigate
Superlative
most castigate
  1. 1.

    (obsolete)Subdued, chastened, moderated

  2. 2.

    (obsolete)Revised and emended

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Đồng nghĩa

Cùng gốc / liên quan

uncastigatedcastigatorcastigatorycastigant

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro First attested in the beginning of the 17 century; Latin castīgātus, perfect passive participle of castīgō (to reprove) (see -ate and -ate), from castus (pure, chaste), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (to cut). chastise chasten, taken through Old French. See also chaste.

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