Synonyms of the word

objurgate

• v. (transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.

berate

• v. (transitive) to chide or scold vehemently.

castigate

• v. To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely.
• v. To revise or make corrections to a publication.

chasten

• v. To punish (in order to bring about improvement in behavior, attitude, etc.); to restrain, moderate.
• v. To make chaste; to purify.
• v. To punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement; to discipline.
• v. To render humble or restrained.

chastise

• v. To punish or scold someone.

chide

• v. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

condemn

• v. (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
• v. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
• v. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
• v. (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
• v. (transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work…
• v. (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
• v. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
• v. (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit…

correct

• adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
• adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
• v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
• v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

decry

• v. (transitive) To denounce as harmful.
• v. (transitive) To blame for ills.

denounce

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
• v. (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension,…
• v. (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression;…
• v. (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

excoriate

• v. (transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
• v. (transitive) To strongly denounce or censure.

jaw

• n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• n. The part of the face below the mouth.
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
• n. A notch or opening.
• n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
• n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
• n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
• n. (slang) Axle guard.
• n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
• v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
• v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
• v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
• adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

lambast

• v. (Britain) Alternative form of lambaste.

lambaste

• v. To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
• v. (dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.

lecture

• n. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
• n. A berating or scolding.
• n. (obsolete) The act of reading.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
• v. (transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rebuke

• n. A harsh criticism.
• v. To criticise harshly; to reprove.

remonstrate

• v. (intransitive) To object; to express disapproval (with, against).
• v. (intransitive, chiefly historical) Specifically, to lodge an official objection (especially by means of…
• v. (transitive, often with an object consisting of direct speech or a clause beginning with that) To state…
• v. To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

reprimand

• n. A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
• v. To reprove in a formal or official way.

reprobate

• adj. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
• adj. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
• adj. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
• n. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
• n. An individual with low morals or principles.
• v. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
• v. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
• v. To refuse, set aside.

reproof

• n. An act or instance of reproving; a rebuke.
• v. To proof again.

scold

• n. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
• v. To rebuke.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.