verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Military leaders, chastened by Vietnam, have learned to be cautious.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even Commissioner Shack seemed chastened by the loss.
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His expression seems dour, chastened around the edges.
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Most of them turn up chastened the following morning.
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The experience had clearly chastened Mr Wormwood and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boasting and bullying.
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They were not to be chastened by homilies like children at a Sunday school.
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Too late to admit us, he stood, chastened, and confessed he'd been knocked out.