beratebe‧rate /bɪˈreɪt/ verb [transitive + for] 
Word Origin Examples
Word OriginWORD ORIGINberate
Verb TableOrigin:
1500-1600 rate ‘to berate’ (14-20 centuries)VERB TABLE
berate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | berate |
| he, she, it | berates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | berated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have berated |
| he, she, it | has berated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had berated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will berate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have berated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am berating |
| he, she, it | is berating | |
| you, we, they | are berating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was berating |
| you, we, they | were berating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been berating |
| he, she, it | has been berating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been berating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be berating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been berating |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Thesaurus- Don't be stupid, she berated herself.
- He berated the White House time and again for not building support for the Bosnia operation within Congress.
- He berates his then-girlfriend, known only as Jackie, for taking much-needed breaks from caring for him.
- I seemed always to be berating myself for visiting with friends and spending a Sunday afternoon talking.
- Just occasionally the tensions spilled over, such as when she berated Moira publicly about the way she was feeding her first child.
- She took a shaky step back, mentally berating herself for continuing to react to him in this inexplicable fashion.
- Still, she was able to berate Patsy and Betsy for giggling.
THESAURUS► reprimand
formal to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong formal to tell someone that they have done something wrong or illegal and are being punished for it – used especially in official contexts: · The police officers were officially reprimanded for their behaviour.· The Swiss authorities severely reprimanded the banks for accepting $660 million from the former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha.· Debra remembered as a very young child being reprimanded by her father.
► scold formal if a parent, teacher, or other adult scolds a child, they talk to them angrily because they have done something wrong. Scold sounds rather formal and old-fashioned. In everyday English people usually say tell somebody off: · I dreaded the thought of going home and being scolded by my father.
► tell somebody off to talk angrily to someone because they have done something wrong. Tell somebody off is more common in British English than American English: · Dad told me off for getting home late.
► give somebody a talking-to informal to talk angrily to a child because they have done something wrong: · The boy was given a good talking-to and sent home.
► lecture to talk angrily to someone for a long time about something they have done wrong, especially in a way that they think is not necessary or fair: · Stop lecturing me, will you!· He began to lecture her about her duties as a citizen.
► rebuke formal to tell someone that they should not have done something: · She rebuked him for being late.· Sheerman rebuked his colleague for suggesting that he was too stupid to understand what he was saying.
► reproach formal to talk to someone in a way that shows you are disappointed at what they have done. Reproach sounds much gentler than criticizing someone or reprimanding them: · He felt he had to reproach his friend for his excessive drinking.
► berate formal to publicly criticize someone for a long time, in a way that shows you strongly disapprove of what they have done: · She berated the paper for its 'misleading front-page story.'· Kennedy berated the Eisenhower administration and its vice president Richard Nixon, during the 1960 campaign.