Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

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

I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.

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.

And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

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?

[…] though perils did Abound, as thick as thought could make ’em, and Appear in forms more horrid,—yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours.

Word Forms

• chides
• chiding
• chid
• chided
• chode
• chidden

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