berate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/bɪˈɹeɪt/
Definition of berate
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To chide or scold vehemently.
“What society tells people that they can “do whatever they want” to dissidents, and yet berates anyone for treating them well?”
“Gabord, still muttering, turned to us again, and began to berate the soldiers for their laziness.”
“A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be.”
“Lenerengo, as usual, forgot everything else in the fiercer pleasure of berating her spouse.”
“During the rally, he berates the crowd for their cowardice.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From be- + rate (“to scold, upbraid”).
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