exprobate

Strongest matches

• admonish
• berate
• castigate
• chastise
• chide
• denounce
• discipline
• rebuff
• rebuke
• reprimand
• reproach
• scold

Strong matches

• abuse
• animadvert
• asperse
• attack
• backbite
• blame
• cavil
• contemn
• denigrate
• deprecate
• disapprove
• disparage
• impugn
• incriminate
• judge
• knock
• lecture
• ostracize
• remonstrate
• reprehend
• reprove
• upbraid

Weak matches

• carp at
• cut up
• find fault with
• get after
• look askance
• pick apart
• pull apart
• read out
• take to task
• tear apart
• tell off

Strongest match

• penalize

Strong matches

• abase
• admonish
• afflict
• berate
• castigate
• chastise
• chide
• cow
• curb
• discipline
• humble
• objurgate
• punish
• rebuke
• reprehend
• repress
• reprimand
• reproach
• reprove
• restrain
• scold
• scourge
• soften
• subdue
• tame
• try
• upbraid

Weak matches

• call down
• fulminate against
• have on the carpet
• rake over the coals
• take to task
• tongue-lash

Strongest matches

• admonish
• berate
• blame
• castigate
• censure
• condemn
• rebuke
• reprimand
• reproach
• scold
• upbraid

Strong matches

• check
• flay
• monish
• rate
• reprehend
• reprove

Weak matches

• call down
• call on the carpet
• find fault
• give a hard time
• lesson
• slap on the wrist
• speak to
• take down
• take down a peg
• talk to
• tell off
• tick off

Strongest matches

• berate
• castigate
• scold

Strong matches

• abuse
• attack
• baste
• belabor
• blister
• censure
• flay
• fulminate
• jaw
• lambaste
• lampoon
• ridicule
• satirize
• upbraid

Weak matches

• bawl out
• chew out
• tear into
• tell off
• tongue-lash

Strongest matches

• admonish
• chide
• preach
• scold

Strong matches

• berate
• flay
• moralize
• rate
• reprimand
• reprove
• sermonize

Weak matches

• give going-over
• give piece of mind
• rank on
• tell off