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CHIDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: chid    , chidden   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Censure severely or angrily

Example:

The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

Synonyms:

trounce; take to task; scold; reprimand; remonstrate; rebuke; rag; lecture; lambaste; lambast; jaw; have words; dress down; chide; chew up; chew out; call on the carpet; call down; berate; bawl out

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "chide" is one way to...):

criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chide"):

castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)

brush down; tell off (reprimand)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

chiding (rebuking a person harshly)

Credits

 Context examples: 

"I might have knowed it," Bill chided himself aloud as he replaced the gun.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After which she gently chid her daughter Annie, for not being more demonstrative when such kindnesses were showered, for her sake, on her old playfellow; and entertained us with some particulars concerning other deserving members of her family, whom it was desirable to set on their deserving legs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ah, saucy! saucy, quoth he, with gentle chiding; on which the bear, uncertain and puzzled, dropped its four legs to earth again, and, waddling back, was soon swathed in ropes by the bear-ward and a crowd of peasants who had been in close pursuit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Why, Marian," he chided, "you talk as though you were ashamed of your relatives, or of your brother at any rate."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“But history tells of slaves who rose to the purple,” I chided.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)