UPBRAID

v. 25B6; verb REPRIMAND, rebuke, admonish, chastise, chide, reprove, reproach, scold, berate, take to task, lambaste, give someone a piece of one's mind, haul over the coals, lecture; informal tell off, give someone a talking-to, dress down, give someone an earful, rap over the knuckles, bawl out, lay into; Brit. informal tick off, carpet, tear off a strip, give someone what for, give someone a rocket/rollicking; N. Amer. informal chew out, ream out; Austral. informal monster; formal castigate; rare reprehend.