REPROVE


Meaning of REPROVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪpru:v ]

( reproves, reproving, reproved)

If you reprove someone, you speak angrily or seriously to them because they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way. ( FORMAL )

‘There’s no call for talk like that,’ Mrs Evans reproved him...

Women were reproved if they did not wear hats in court.

= admonish

VERB : V with quote , V n

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