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chastise Verb [-tising, -tised] 1. to scold severely 2. Old-fashioned to punish by beating [Middle English chastisen] chastisement n
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chastise verb scold, blame, correct, discipline, lecture, carpet (informal) nag, censure, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, berate, tick off (informal) castigate, chide, tell off (informal) find fault with, remonstrate with, bring (someone) to book, take (someone) to task, reprove, upbraid, bawl out (informal) give (someone) a talking-to (informal) haul (someone) over the coals (informal) chew out U.S., Canad. (informal) give (someone) a dressing-down, give a rocket Brit., N.Z. (informal) give (someone) a row << OPPOSITE praise |
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We have observed the disposition to retaliation excited in Connecticut in consequence of the enormities perpetrated by the Legislature of Rhode Island; and we reasonably infer that, in similar cases, under other circumstances, a war, not of PARCHMENT, but of the sword, would chastise such atrocious breaches of moral obligation and social justice. Can I find some fat living where there are no wicked to chastise, and where the work is easy and comfortable? It was to the house of this grand llama of tailors that D'Artagnan took the despairing Porthos; who, as they were going along, said to his friend, "Take care, my good D'Artagnan, not to compromise the dignity of a man such as I am with the arrogance of this Percerin, who will, I expect, be very impertinent; for I give you notice, my friend, that if he is wanting in respect I will infallibly chastise him. |
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