adj
Meaning 1
Subdued, chastened, moderated
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
castigate
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈkæs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/
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Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈkæs.tə.ɡeɪt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Revised and emended
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To punish or reprimand someone severely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rebuke, reprimand, chasten, chastise, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, blame, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, castigate, censure, charge, chew out, chide, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, derogate, dispraise, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, fulminate, get at, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, reprehend, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, amerce, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's guts for garters, have someone's head, have someone's hide, give it to someone, give someone what for, give what for, gruel, malavogue, nail someone to the wall, penalize, penance, punish, tan someone's hide, tar out, teach someone a lesson
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: condemn, lambaste, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, blame, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, castigate, censure, charge, chastise, chew out, chide, criticize, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, derogate, dispraise, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, fulminate, get at, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To revise or make corrections to a publication.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: correct, revise
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
censure severely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chastise, objurgate, chasten, correct
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
Narrower terms: flame
verb
Meaning 7
inflict severe punishment on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: punish, penalize, penalise
History
Etymology
First attested in the beginning of the 17th century; borrowed from Latin castīgātus, perfect passive participle of castīgō (“to reprove”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from castus (“pure, chaste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”). Doublet of chastise and chasten, taken through Old French. See also chaste.
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: përul — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Bulgarian: наказвам (nakazvam) — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Bulgarian: порицавам (poricavam) — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Czech: kárat — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Czech: pokárat — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Czech: kritizovat — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Czech: plísnit — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Czech: vyplísnit — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- French: châtier — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Galician: castigar — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Galician: reprender — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- German: bestrafen — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- German: strafen — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Indonesian: menegur — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Indonesian: mengecam — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Latin: castīgō — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Polish: (srogo) karcić — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Polish: strofować — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Portuguese: repreender — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Portuguese: castigar — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Quechua: maqay — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Russian: кори́ть (korítʹ) — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Russian: нака́зывать (nakázyvatʹ) — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Russian: кара́ть (karátʹ) — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Slovak: karhať — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Slovak: dohovárať — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Spanish: reprender — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Spanish: castigar — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Swedish: tukta — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Ukrainian: карати (karaty) — to punish or reprimand someone severely
- Bulgarian: осъждам (osǎždam) — to criticize something severely
- Bulgarian: критикувам (kritikuvam) — to criticize something severely
- Czech: kritizovat — to criticize something severely
- Indonesian: mencela — to criticize something severely
- Indonesian: mengkritik — to criticize something severely
- Indonesian: mengecam — to criticize something severely
- Polish: (ostro) potępiać — to criticize something severely
- Polish: krytykować — to criticize something severely
- Polish: piętnować — to criticize something severely
- Portuguese: criticar duramente — to criticize something severely
- Portuguese: criticar severamente — to criticize something severely
- Russian: осужда́ть (osuždátʹ) — to criticize something severely
- Russian: критикова́ть (kritikovátʹ) — to criticize something severely
- Slovak: odsudzovať — to criticize something severely
- Slovak: ostro kritizovať — to criticize something severely
- Spanish: criticar duramente — to criticize something severely
- Spanish: criticar severamente — to criticize something severely
- Spanish: censurar — to criticize something severely
- Ukrainian: засуджувати (zasudžuvaty) — to criticize something severely
- Ukrainian: критикувати (krytykuvaty) — to criticize something severely
- French: réviser — to revise a publication
- French: corriger — to revise a publication
- German: revidieren — to revise a publication
- German: korrigieren — to revise a publication
- Polish: poprawić — to revise a publication
- Polish: korygować — to revise a publication
- Ukrainian: виправляти (vypravljaty) — to revise a publication
- Ukrainian: коригувати (koryhuvaty) — to revise a publication