CHASTISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chastise mean? 

• CHASTISE (verb)
  The verb CHASTISE has 1 sense:

1. censure severely

  Familiarity information: CHASTISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHASTISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chastise    ... he / she / it chastises   
Past simple: chastised   
Past participle: chastised   
-ing form: chastising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Censure severely

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate

Context example:

She chastised him for his insensitive remarks

Hypernyms (to "chastise" is one way to...):

bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; scold; take to task; trounce (censure severely or angrily)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chastise"):

flame (criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

chastisement (verbal punishment)

chastisement (a rebuke for making a mistake)

 Context examples 

“Ready to chastise insolence, sir,” cried Alleyne with flashing eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgement from heaven to chastise her partiality.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Appearances would warrant that conclusion: and, no doubt (though, with an audacity that wants chastising out of you, you seem to question it), they will be a superlatively happy pair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)