transitive. To rebuke, reprove, chastise; to punish; to torment, afflict.

transitive. To rebuke, reprove, chide, scold, blame.

To take to task, reprehend.

To rebuke, reprove. Obsolete. Cf. threap, v. 1.

To chasten, chastise.

To reprove, rebuke.

transitive. To take to task; to rebuke. Obsolete.

To address with rebuke; to reprove, chide, scold. Obsolete.

To reprove, rebuke.

transitive. To reprove, reprimand, rebuke, check sharply or severely. A thing, action, conduct, etc.

to reprove, rebuke.

To reprove, rebuke.

transitive. To reprove, reprimand, chide. Also with for, †of. Also intransitive.

transitive. To check, reprove, or rebuke in a sharp or cutting manner; in later use, to treat or receive (a person, suggestion, etc.) in a way…

transitive. To ‘take up’, reprove, rebuke.

transitive. To rebuke, reprimand, or blame (a person). Frequently with for (also †of).

To reprove, rebuke, censure. Obsolete.

To rate, rebuke, reprove.

To find fault with, reprove, reprehend; to call upon to answer for something, or to give account of oneself; to call to account. Now only dialect…

To reprove, rebuke, chide. Obsolete.

transitive. To rebuke, reprimand, or reprove (a person).

transitive. To reprove, rebuke.

transitive. To berate, rebuke.

To rebuke or snub (a person, etc.) sharply or severely; to check, restrain, or curb (a child); to call off (a dog). Now dialect.

To reprove, rebuke. rare.

to call to account and variants: to summon (a person) to answer for his or her conduct; to require (a person or institution) to explain poor conduct…

transitive. To bring down the presumption, pride, or self-esteem of (a person); to snub; to better in argument, to reduce to silence. Also (now…

transitive. To reprimand, reprove, or check; to snub. Also absol.

To reprove, rebuke. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To reprehend, reprove.

transitive. To reprove, rebuke; to punish. Obsolete.

transitive. To reprehend, reprove (a person). Obsolete. rare.

to give (a person) his (also her,etc.) own: to give a person what he or she deserves; esp. to inflict retribution. to tell (a person) his (also her…

transitive. To take to task, call to account, rebuke, reprove (a person). Frequently with of, for. Obsolete.

transitive. To censure, reprove (a person, an action, etc.). Frequently with for, of. Obsolete.

To censure, reprove. (Only in Caxton).

Phrases. to hit (†cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs, to punish or reprove sharply, ‘rap one's knuckles’.

To rebuke, reprove, reprimand. Also with off. Formerly archaic or dialect. Now colloquial.

transitive. To warn, reprimand, or rebuke (a person) for (formerly also †of) a fault or misdeed.

transitive. To rebuke or reprove; to direct sharp comments against. Cf. nip, n.3 1. Now Scottish.

transitive. To beat with or as with a twig; figurative to reprove. ? Obsolete.

To rebuke, reprove.

transitive. Without complement. To give a lesson or lessons to (a person); to instruct, advise; (also) to admonish, rebuke. Also intransitive…

transitive. To lower the opinion of (a person) as to his or her own status or ability; to humble, to humiliate. Also: to check (a person's pride…

to haul (a person) over the coals and variants: to call (a person) to account; to rebuke or reprimand severely. Cf. to rake a person over the coals…

transitive. To chide, rebuke, reprove.

transitive. To accuse, charge; to rebuke, reprove. Obsolete (poetic in later use).

transitive. In early use: †to reprimand, scold, admonish (obsolete). To tell (a person) he or she is wrong about something; to dictate to (a…

to gather up v. To chide, reprove (Latin corripere). Obsolete.

To take to task; to censure, reprove, chide, reprehend; = tax, v. 6. Now const. with.

transitive. To reprove; = redargue, v. 2.

To complain of (grievances); to plead or remonstrate with a person about (conduct). Obsolete.

To instruct under discipline; to subject to discipline, control, or correction; to school; also to admonish or reprove.

transitive. To reprimand or chastise (a person); to rebuke, scold, admonish. Now rare (English regional (northern) in later use).

To snub, check, repress. Now dialect.

To check, repress; to snub, reprove, chide.

to have in tax, to have laid upon one, to have in hand. to take in tax, to take to task.

to sharp up: to admonish sharply. Obsolete.

transitive. Frequently in to round in a person's (also the) ear. With up. To rebuke or reprove (a person). Obsolete.

To blame, rebuke, chide, reprove: = threap, v. 1.

transitive. To deliver a reprimand to (a person); to rebuke, reprove. Also intransitive.

to take to task: †(a) to undertake as one's task or special piece of work; †(b) to challenge (a person) to a task; †(c) to take (a person or thing)…

To give a ‘lesson’ to; to instruct or admonish in an authoritative or imperious manner. Obsolete.

To reprove, take to task.

transitive. To rebuke, reprove. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To chastise.

To address with reproof; to admonish.

colloquial. To bring up for a reprimand, to call to account. Also, to haul over the coals (see coal, n. phrases 5).

transitive. colloquial (originally slang). Originally: to arrest, take into custody; esp. to apprehend and bring before a magistrate. Later in…

colloquial. To call (a servant) into the parlour, etc., to be reprimanded; to reprimand, ‘call over the coals’. (Cf. carpet, n. 2d.)

colloquial. transitive. To make fun of, mock, or tease; to play a trick on.

To exercise the faculty of speech; to speak, utter words, say things; often contemptuous: to speak trivially, utter empty words, prate. to talk to…

Chiefly North American (colloquial). As the type of a place to which naughty children are taken to be punished; esp. in to take (a person) to the woo…

U.S. regional (western). transitive. To overwork or mistreat (a person); (also) to attack verbally; to tease; to criticize sharply.

transitive. To reprimand, rebuke, scold. Cf. telling-off, n. 2, and also tick, v.1 3c.

intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). to tell (someone) where he or she gets off (also to tell (someone) where to get off) and variants: to…

intransitive. U.S. slang. To unsettle, disconcert, or annoy; to reprimand or criticize; to pester.

to know (also keep) one's place: to behave in a manner appropriate to one's situation, social status, etc. not one's place: outside one's duties…

transitive. To punish, damage, injure; to attack physically or verbally; (also) to reprimand severely. Also intransitive.

To reprimand or scold. Cf. to tell off 5 at tell, v. phrasal verbs 1. colloquial (originally Military slang).

transitive. To reprimand or punish (a person); = to take (a person) to the woodshed at woodshed, n. 2a. Cf. woodshedding, n. 2.

In figurative phrases. to slap (a person or thing) down: to snub, suppress, or rebuke; to slap (a person's) wrist: to scold or reprimand; to slap (a…

To reprimand (a person); to deal with (a person) by means of force, repression, etc. colloquial.

intransitive. To complain. (In quot. 1942 used transitively, to complain to, to admonish.)

transitive. Navy slang. To reprimand (a person). Cf. bottle, n.3 9. rare.

transitive. colloquial. To reprimand (a person, esp. a subordinate). Usually in passive. Cf. carpet, v. 4, mat, n.1 phrases 2.

transitive. U.S. colloquial. To reprimand severely. Frequently with out.

To fail (someone) in a test, course, etc.; to punish (see also quot. 1969).

transitive. Of an elder in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): to admonish (a Friend, esp. for inappropriate behaviour).