1. Censure severely or angrily
   - call on the carpet [US], take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer]

Derived forms: chidden, chided, chides, chiding, chid

See also: chiding

Type of: criticise [Brit], criticize, knock, pick apart

• rot-resistant
• rota
• Rotarian
• rotary
• rotary actuator
• Rotary Club
• rotary converter
• rotary engine
• Rotary International
• rotary joint
• rotary motion
• rotary press
• rotary wing
• rotatable
• rotate
• rotated
• rotating mechanism
• rotating shaft
• rotation
• rotational
• rotational latency
• rotational nystagmus
• rotationally
• rotative
• rotator