• IPA: /ɹəˈvaɪl/

revile (reviles, present participle reviling; past and past participle reviled)

1. (ambitransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Peter 2:23 ↗:

     who, when he was reviled, reviled not again

   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     And did not she herself revile me there?

• calumniate
• reproach
• scold
• vilify
• vituperate

• French: insulter
• German: schmähen, beschimpfen
• Italian: insultare, vituperare
• Portuguese: insultar
• Russian: поноси́ть
• Spanish: insultar, putear (Am.)

revile (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) reproach; reviling
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     The gracious Judge, without revile, replied.

• Spanish: reprochar