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Word: upbraid
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Meaning:
Noun:
- obsolete The act of reproaching; contumely.
Source: Wiktionary
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Verb:
- intransitive To utter upbraidings.
- archaic To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by ''with'' or ''for'', and formerly ''of'', before the thing imputed.
- obsolete To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with ''to'' before the person.
- obsolete To treat with contempt.
- To criticize severely.
- To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
Source: Wiktionary
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