OBJURGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does objurgate mean? 

• OBJURGATE (verb)
  The verb OBJURGATE has 2 senses:

1. express strong disapproval of

2. censure severely

  Familiarity information: OBJURGATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBJURGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they objurgate    ... he / she / it objurgates   
Past simple: objurgated   
Past participle: objurgated   
-ing form: objurgating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express strong disapproval of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

condemn; decry; excoriate; objurgate; reprobate

Context example:

These ideas were reprobated

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

denounce (speak out against)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

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 "objurgate" 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 "objurgate"):

flame (criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

objurgation (rebuking a person harshly)