CASTIGATE


Meaning of CASTIGATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kæstɪgeɪt ]

( castigates, castigating, castigated)

If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely. ( FORMAL )

Marx never lost an opportunity to castigate colonialism...

She castigated him for having no intellectual interests.

VERB : V n , V n for n / -ing

• cas‧ti‧ga‧tion

...Bradley’s public castigation of the police chief.

N-UNCOUNT

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