Chide

Quick meaning: Chide is a verb meaning (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

Meaning

(transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
2. (ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

Example Sentences

Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!

Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.

Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another.

Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?

Word Forms

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• chiding
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Synonyms for chide

Depending on context, synonyms include rebuke, reprimand, berate, scold, check, remonstrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lambaste, berate, reprimand, rebuke, reproof, remonstrate.

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