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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize harshly |
| Synonyms: | abuse, attack, bawl out, berate, blast, castigate, censure, chew out, complain, fulminate, fume, inveigh, jaw, objurate, rant, rate, revile, scold, thunder, tongue-lash, upbraid, vituperate, vociferate, whip |
| Antonyms: | compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | declaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | proclaim; get on a soapbox |
| Synonyms: | attack, bloviate, blow hot air, declare, decry, denounce, harangue, hold forth, inveigh, lecture, mouth, orate, perorate, pile it on, proclaim, rail, rant, recite, soapbox, speak, spiel*, spout, talk big |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dress down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scold |
| Synonyms: | bawl out, berate, carpet, castigate, censure, chew out, lash, rail, rake over coals, ream, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, tear into, tell off, tongue-lash, upbraid |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flatter, praise |
| Main Entry: | fence |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enclose or separate an area |
| Synonyms: | bound, cage, circumscribe, confine, coop, corral, defend, encircle, fortify, girdle, guard, hedge, hem, immure, mew, mure, pen, protect, rail, restrict, secure, surround, wall |
| Antonyms: | release, set free, uncoop |
| Main Entry: | fulminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize harshly |
| Synonyms: | animadvert, berate, blow up, bluster, castigate, censure, condemn, curse, declaim, denounce, denunciate, execrate, explode, fume, intimidate, inveigh against, menace, protest, rage, rail, reprobate, swear at, thunder, upbraid, vilify, vituperate |
| Antonyms: | compliment, defend, flatter, praise, support |
| Main Entry: | inveigh |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blame, denounce |
| Synonyms: | admonish, berate, blast, castigate, censure, condemn, crack down on, except, expostulate, go after, have at, jump down one's throat, kick, lambaste, lay into, lay out, let have it, object, protest, rail, read out, recriminate, remonstrate, reproach, rip into, roast, scold, scorch, sound off, tongue-lash, trash*, upbraid, vituperate, work over |
| Antonyms: | flatter, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jaw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize |
| Synonyms: | abuse, baste, berate, blame, call on the carpet, censure, rail, rate, revile, scold, tongue-lash, upbraid, vituperate |
| Antonyms: | praise |
| Main Entry: | lampoon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ridicule, make fun of |
| Synonyms: | burlesque, caricature, jape, mock, parody, pasquinade, put on*, rail, roast, satirize, send up, squib, take off, travesty |
| Antonyms: | applaud, approve, praise, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | object |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disagree, argue against |
| Synonyms: | balk, be displeased, challenge, complain, crab, criticize, cross, demur, deprecate, disapprove, disavow, discommend, discountenance, disesteem, dispute, dissent, except, expostulate, frown, go-one-on-one, gripe, grouse, inveigh, kick*, make a stink, mix it up with, oppose, protest, rail, raise objection, rant, rave, remonstrate, sound off, spurn, squawk, storm, take exception, take on, tangle* |
| Antonyms: | accept, agree, concur, consent, go along |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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