berate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /bɪˈɹeɪt/
berate (berates, present participle berating; past and past participle berated)
- (transitive) to chide or scold vehemently
- 1896, Gilbert Parker, Seats Of The Mighty, ch. 13:
- Gabord, still muttering, turned to us again, and began to berate the soldiers for their laziness.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars, ch. 21:
- A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be.
- 1917, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, ch. 14:
- Lenerengo, as usual, forgot everything else in the fiercer pleasure of berating her spouse.
- 2008, Alex Perry, "[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1862646,00.html The Man Who Would Be (Congo's) King]," Time, 27 Nov.:
- During the rally, he berates the crowd for their cowardice.
- 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France
- France were supposedly a team in pieces, beaten by Tonga just a week ago and with coach Marc Lievremont publicly berating his players, but so clear-cut was their victory that much of the atmosphere had been sucked from the contest long before the end.
- 1896, Gilbert Parker, Seats Of The Mighty, ch. 13:
- See also Thesaurus:reprehend
- French: réprimander, admonester, fustiger
- German: ausschelten, ausschimpfen, beschimpfen, schelten
- Italian: riprendere, ammonire, rimproverare, sgridare, richiamare, redarguire
- Portuguese: repreender, admoestar
- Russian: руга́ть
- Spanish: reprender, vituperar
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