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.
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