v. 25B6; verb
the staff were chastised for arriving late : SCOLD, upbraid, berate, reprimand, reprove, rebuke, admonish, chide, censure, lambaste, lecture, give someone a piece of one's mind, take to task, haul over the coals; informal tell off, dress down, bawl out, blow up at, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, come down on someone like a ton of bricks, have someone's guts for garters, slap someone's wrist, rap over the knuckles, give someone hell; Brit. informal carpet, tick off, have a go at, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, give someone a rocket; N. Amer. informal chew out, ream out; Austral. informal monster; dated give someone a rating; formal castigate; archaic chasten; rare reprehend, objurgate.
(dated) her mistress chastised her with a whip. : See beat verb sense 1.
praise.