Reprove

Quick meaning: Reprove is a verb meaning (intransitive) To express disapproval.

Meaning

(intransitive) To express disapproval.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
2. (transitive) To deny or reject (as a feeling, behaviour, action, etc.).
3. (transitive) To prove again.

Example Sentences

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.

Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.

As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves.

Word Forms

• reproves
• reproving
• reproved
• reproven
• re-prove

Synonyms for reprove

Depending on context, synonyms include admonish, animadvert, bash, slash, lash, scorch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include admonish, reprimand, chide, condemn, censure, denounce.

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