transitive. To address (a person) in terms of reproof or blame: in earlier use implying loud vehemence, to ‘scold’; in later use often little more…

transitive and absol. To chide, address with angry and maledictory language. dialect.

transitive. To assail with words; to reproach, scold; to discuss or talk about injuriously. In quot. 1388, to drive out by talking against.

transitive. To scold, berate, or rebuke vehemently or angrily. With for, †of. With a person as object.

transitive. To chide, scold (a person). Obsolete exc. Scottish and northern.

transitive. To rebuke, scold, berate. Also with at and intransitive.

To speak angrily to, to scold. Obsolete. rare.

To scold. Obsolete.

transitive. To scold or berate; to rail at. Now rare.

transitive. To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

transitive. To find fault with; to reprove angrily or contradict (a person). Now Scottish.

transitive. To remonstrate with or rebuke, to scold (a person); to threaten (a person) verbally. English regional (south-western) in later use.

transitive. To quarrel with, find fault with, abuse.

transitive. To hector, bully; to scold, chide, storm at. (Cf. modern colloquial ‘to blow up’.)

To treat shrewishly; to scold. rare.

to claw away, off. to rate soundly, scold, revile. Obsolete.

(transitive) to assail with words; to scold; also intransitive (with it) to tattle, chatter.

figurative. to blow up. To scold, rail at. colloquial.

transitive. To address (esp. an inferior or a child) with continuous and more or less angry reproach; to chide.

transitive. colloquial and British regional. To scold, reprove; to dress down.

transitive. To scold, berate; to criticize sharply, speak critically of. Usually with up. Now rare.

transitive. To overawe, intimidate. Also: to scold, harass, badger.

slang. transitive. To address censoriously or abusively; to scold or ‘lecture’ (a person).

To reprimand, scold loudly; to beat, thrash.

transitive. English regional (northern and north-eastern) and Scottish (south-eastern). To remonstrate with or rebuke angrily, to scold.

transitive. U.S. To scold, reprimand. Cf. to haul (a person) over the coals at coal, n. phrases 5.

(transitive) to scold, abuse.

figurative. To beat, thrash, trounce; to defeat; also, to reprimand, reprove, upbraid, scold (cf. ‘to give one a dressing’).

transitive. colloquial (chiefly North American). To challenge sharply; to reprove, rebuke, reprimand.

transitive. Australian slang. With up. To reprimand severely; to shout abuse at.

intransitive. colloquial. to go off at (a person): to berate or reproach someone angrily; to launch into a tirade against someone.

With out. To reprimand. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).

transitive. To reprimand, rebuke, scold.