- chiding, scolding, objurgation, tongue-lashing - rebuking a person harshly
--1 is a kind of rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand
--1 has particulars: wig, wiggingDerived form: verb chide1
- call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
--1 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun chiding1
Somebody ----s somebody