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TONGUE LASH
| Main Entry: |
bring to book
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call to account |
| Synonyms: | call on the carpet, read the riot act, take to task, tongue lash |
| Main Entry: | castigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize severely |
| Synonyms: | baste, bawl out, beat, berate, blister, cane, censure, chasten, chastise, chew out, come down on, correct, criticize, discipline, drag over the coals, dress down, drub, excoriate, flay, flog, jump down one's throat, lambaste, lash, lay out, lean on, penalize, pummel, punish, rail, rate, read the riot act, ream, rebuke, reprimand, scarify, scathe, scold, scorch, scourge, thrash, tongue-lash, upbraid, whip |
| Antonyms: | compliment, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | chasten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | correct, humiliate |
| Synonyms: | abase, admonish, afflict, berate, call down, castigate, chastise, chide, cow, curb, discipline, exprobate, fulminate against, have on the carpet, humble, objurgate, penalize, punish, rake over the coals, rebuke, reprehend, repress, reprimand, reproach, reprove, restrain, scold, scourge, soften, subdue, take to task, tame, tongue-lash, try, upbraid |
| Notes: | chasten means to correct by punishment, to take to task - to restrain or subdue; chastise means to punish, as by beating or to criticize severely |
| Antonyms: | aid, animate, assist, boost, cheer, comfort, embolden, encourage, help, honor, uplift |
| Main Entry: | chew out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scold |
| Synonyms: | bawl out, carpet, criticize, dress down, jaw, revile, tell off, tongue-lash, vituperate, wig, yell at |
| Antonyms: | compliment, laud, praise |
| 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: | 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: | lash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize harshly |
| Synonyms: | abuse, attack, baste, bawl out, belabor, berate, blister, castigate, censure, chew out, exprobate, flay, fulminate, jaw, lambaste, lampoon, ridicule, satirize, scold, tear into, tell off, tongue-lash, upbraid |
| Antonyms: | compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | rail |
| 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 |
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