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Castigate   /kˈæstəgˌeɪt/   Listen
Castigate

verb
(past & past part. castigated; pres. part. castigating)
1.
Censure severely.  Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate.
2.
Inflict severe punishment on.





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"Castigate" Quotes from Famous Books



... went back to their wives; and their wives, recollecting that the cottage formed part of the glebe, went off to inquire of Parson Morth, "than whom," as the tablet to his memory relates, "none was better to castigate the manners of the age." He was a burly, hard-riding ruffian, and the tale of his great fight with Gipsy Ben in Launceston streets is yet ...
— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


Words linked to "Castigate" :   reprimand, rebuke, reproof, chew up, call down, chastise, correct, bawl out, dress down, penalize, punish, have words, berate, penalise, call on the carpet, jaw, objurgate, remonstrate, rag, lambaste, trounce, chide, lambast, castigation, lecture, flame, chew out, take to task, scold


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