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noun
The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To criticize severely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, castigate, 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, lambaste, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate
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verb
To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
Qualifier: and formerly of before the object
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verb
To treat with contempt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To object or urge as a matter of reproach
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: cast up
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verb
To utter upbraidings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
To vomit; retch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, archaic, dialectal
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verb
express criticism towards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: reproach
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate
History
From Middle English upbreyden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
Across languages
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
