Adjective reproving has 1 sense
  1. admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving - expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
    Antonyms: favorable, favourable (indirect, via unfavorable)
,Verb reprove has 1 sense
  1. admonish, reprove - take to task; "He admonished the child for his bad behavior"
    --1 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
    Derived forms: noun reprover1, noun reproval1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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