verb
Meaning 1
To scold a person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- When she comes home I will certainly be giving her a speaking to about breaking curfew.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: berate, chastise, scold, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, blame, scorch, blast, 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, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate
Antonyms: none provided