objurgate

  • 71reprove — Synonyms and related words: admonish, bring to book, call down, call to account, chasten, chastise, chide, correct, have words with, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rack, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, scold, set down, set straight, spank,… …

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  • 72scold — Synonyms and related words: Xanthippe, admonish, amazon, baste, battle ax, bawl out, beldam, belittler, berate, bitch, blame, blister, brace, bring to book, cackle, call, call to account, captious critic, carol, carper, carpet, castigate, cat,… …

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  • 73set down — Synonyms and related words: abase, abash, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, admonish, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, apply to, argue, ascribe to, assert, assever, asseverate, assign to, attach to, attribute to, aver,… …

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  • 74set straight — Synonyms and related words: admonish, amend, awaken, break the spell, bring to book, burst the bubble, call to account, chastise, chide, compensate, conduct to, correct, debunk, direct to, disabuse, disappoint, disenchant, disentangle, disillude …

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  • 75spank — Synonyms and related words: admonish, bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blip, box, bring to book, buffet, bust, call to account, cane, castigate, chastise, chide, clout, club, correct, cowhide, cudgel, cuff, cut, drub,… …

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  • 76straighten out — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, acculturate, adjust, admonish, advance, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, boost, bring forward, bring to book, bring to terms, call to account, chastise, chide, civilize, close, close with, compose,… …

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  • 77take down — Synonyms and related words: abase, abash, admonish, bear down, beat down, blow down, blow over, book, bowl down, bowl over, break down, bring down, bring low, bring to book, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, calendar, call to account, carve, cast… …

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  • 78take to task — Synonyms and related words: accuse, admonish, allege, arraign, article, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, castigate, charge, chasten, chastise, chide, cite, complain, correct, deal with,… …

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  • 79upbraid — Synonyms and related words: admonish, bawl out, berate, bring to book, call to account, castigate, censure, chastise, chew out, chide, correct, dress down, give a dressing down, have words with, lash, lecture, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend,… …

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  • 80damn — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. See condemnation, disapprobation, imprecation. Ant., bless, praise. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To consign to hell] Syn. curse, accurse, confound, ban, doom, anathematize, proscribe, banish, read out of …

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