chide v : 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" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast] [also: chidden, chid]

English

Etymology

ċīdan, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• /tʃaɪd/
• Rhymes with: -aɪd

Verb

1. to loudly admonish in blame; to angrily reproach

   1591 And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. — Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 2, Scene 1.

   1598 If the scorn of your bright eyne

   Have power to raise such love in mine,

   Alack, in me what strange effect

   Would they work in mild aspect?

   Whiles you chid me, I did love — Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4 Scene 2.

   1611 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.

Translations

admonish, berate, bring to book, call down, call to account, chastise, correct, have words with, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, set down, set straight, spank, straighten out, take down, take to task, tick off, upbraid