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take to task
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condemn; criticize severely |
| Synonyms: | abuse, admonish, animadvert, asperse, attack, backbite, berate, blame, carp at, castigate, cavil, chastise, chide, contemn, cut up, denigrate, denounce, deprecate, disapprove, discipline, disparage, exprobate, find fault with, get after, impugn, incriminate, judge, knock, lecture, look askance, ostracize, pick apart, pull apart, read out, rebuff, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tear apart, tell off, upbraid |
| Notes: | to censor is to disallow portions or the entireties of books, plays, etc. on the grounds that they transgress propriety, 'to scrutinize, revise, or cut,' expurgate or suppress; to censure is to criticize vehemently or harshly, or condemn |
| Antonyms: | allow, approve, compliment, endorse, laud, permit, sanction |
| Main Entry: | denounce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condemn, attack |
| Synonyms: | accuse, adjudicate, arraign, blacklist, blame, boycott, brand, castigate, censure, charge, charge with, criticize, damn, declaim, decry, denunciate, derogate, dress down, excoriate, expose, finger*, hang something on, impeach, implicate, impugn, incriminate, indict, inveigh against, knock, ostracize, proscribe, prosecute, rap, rat, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, revile, scold, show up, skin*, smear, stigmatize, take to task, threaten, upbraid, vilify, vituperate |
| Antonyms: | approve, commend, compliment, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rebuke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reprimand; criticize harshly |
| Synonyms: | admonish, bawl out, berate, blame, call on the carpet, carp on, castigate, censure, chew out, chide, climb all over, dress down, fry, go after, jawbone, jump down one's throat, jump on, lay into, lean on, lecture, lesson, monish, oppose, pay, rake, read*, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip*, scold, sit on, sound off, take to task, tear apart, tell off, tick off, upbraid, zap |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flatter, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reprimand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blame, scold |
| Synonyms: | admonish, call on the carpet, castigate, censure, check, chew out, chide, come down on, criticize, denounce, dress down, give piece of one's mind, give the dickens, lecture, lesson, light into, lower the boom, monish, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, take to task, tell off, tick off, upbraid |
| Antonyms: | exonerate, forgive, reward |
| Main Entry: | reproach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find fault with |
| Synonyms: | abuse, admonish, blame, call down, call to task, cavil, censure, chide, condemn, criticize, defame, discredit, disparage, give comeuppance, give the devil, jawbone, lay on, lesson, rake, ream, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, sit on, take to task, trim, upbraid |
| Antonyms: | approve, praise |
| Main Entry: | reprove |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rebuke |
| Synonyms: | admonish, bawl out, berate, castigate, censure, chew out, chide, condemn, jump down one's throat, lambaste, lay into, lecture, read the riot act, reprimand, reproach, scold, take to task, upbraid |
| Main Entry: | scold |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find fault with |
| Synonyms: | abuse, admonish, asperse, berate, blame, castigate, cavil, censure, chasten, chide, criticize, denounce, disparage, dress down, expostulate, give a talking-to, jump on, keep aft, lay down the law, lecture, light into, nag, objurate, preach, put down, rail, rake over the coals, rate, ream, rebuke, recriminate, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, revile, take to task, taunt, tell off, upbraid, vilify, vituperate |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flatter, praise |
| Main Entry: | tell off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reprimand; criticize harshly |
| Synonyms: | berate, censure, chide, give piece of one's mind, give tongue-lashing, lecture, rail, rake over the coals, rebuke, reproach, reprove, revile, scold, take to task, tick off, upbraid, vituperate |
| Antonyms: | compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | upbraid |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scold |
| Synonyms: | admonish, berate, blame, castigate, censure, chasten, chastise, chew out, chide, criticize, give a talking-to, jump on, lay down the law, lecture, light into, put down, rake over the coals, ream, reprimand, reproach, take to task, tell off |
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