verb
censure severely or angrily
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The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
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The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
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The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
• Syn:
↑call on the carpet, ↑take to task, ↑rebuke, ↑rag, ↑trounce, ↑reproof, ↑lecture, ↑reprimand, ↑jaw, ↑dress down, ↑call down, ↑scold, ↑chide, ↑berate, ↑remonstrate, ↑chew out, ↑chew up, ↑have words, ↑lambaste, ↑lambast
• Derivationally related forms:
↑chiding (for: ↑chide), ↑scolder (for: ↑scold), ↑scolding (for: ↑scold), ↑reprimand (for: ↑reprimand), ↑lecture (for: ↑lecture), ↑reproof (for: ↑reproof), ↑rebuker (for: ↑rebuke), ↑rebuke (for: ↑rebuke)
• Hypernyms: ↑knock, ↑criticize, ↑criticise, ↑pick apart
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Somebody ——s PP
(for: ↑have words)-
Somebody ——s PP
(for: ↑remonstrate)-
Sam cannot bawl out Sue
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transitive verbhe bawled me out for letting such dangerously infectious material get on my fingers — Fredric Wertham
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bawl out (informal)
To reprimand loudly and angrily
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Main Entry: ↑bawl
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ˌbawl ˈout [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they bawl out he/she/it bawls out present participle bawling out past tense bawled out past participle bawled out] mainly american informal phrasal verb
to speak angrily to someone because of something they have done wrong
Thesaurus: to say something, or to speak to someone in an angry waysynonym
Main entry: bawl
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bawl out [phrasal verb]
bawl out (someone) or bawl (someone) out chiefly US, informal : to yell at (someone) for doing something bad or wrong
His boss bawled him out for forgetting about the meeting.
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Main Entry: ↑bawl
Useful english dictionary. 2012.