Objurgate

Quick meaning: Objurgate is a verb meaning (transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.

Meaning

(transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To remonstrate, complain, to rail against.

Example Sentences

He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust.[…]

Mulcachy was disgusted. “Listen to reason, won’t you?” he objurgated, as, this time, the reason he referred to was the introduction of the ring clear through both nostrils, higher up, and through the central dividing wall of cartilage.

When he saw his servant he rushed forward, and pressing the paper on him objurgated him, in tones which induced Ali to think that something awful had happened, to hurry up and get the whale-boat ready to go immediately—at once, at once—after Captain Lingard.

Word Forms

• objurgates
• objurgating
• objurgated

Synonyms for objurgate

Depending on context, synonyms include condemn, chastise, castigate, decry, excoriate, correct.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chastize, chasten, chastise, castigate, decry, condemn.

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