Meaning of CHIDE
| Pronunciation: | | chId
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| | Definition: | | [v] censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic |
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| | Synonyms: | | bawl out, berate, chew out, chew up, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, trounce |
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| | See Also: | | brush down, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, criticise, criticize, objurgate, pick apart, tell off | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Chide\ (ch[imac]d), v. t. [imp. {Chid} (ch[i^]d), or
{Chode} (ch[imac]d Obs.); p. p. {Chidden}, {Chid}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Chiding}.] [AS. c[=i]dan; of unknown origin.]
1. To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Upbraided, chid, and rated at. --Shak.
2. Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
The sea that chides the banks of England. --Shak.
{To} {chide hither, chide from, or chide away}, to cause to
come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof.
Syn: To blame; rebuke; reprove; scold; censure; reproach;
reprehend; reprimand.
\Chide\, v. i.
1. To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find
fault; to contend angrily.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses. --Ex.
xvii. 2.
2. To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
As doth a rock againts the chiding flood. --Shak.
\Chide\, n. [AS. c[=i]d]
A continuous noise or murmur.
The chide of streams. --Thomson.
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| | Related Terms: | | admonish, berate, bring to book, call down, call to account, chastise, correct, have words with, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, set down, set straight, spank, straighten out, take down, take to task, tick off, upbraid |
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