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verb
- 1. scold or rebuke: "she chided him for not replying to her letters"
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CHIDE definition: 1. to speak to someone severely because they have behaved badly: 2. to speak to someone severely…. Learn more.
The meaning of CHIDE is to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke. How to use chide in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Chide.
To chide someone is to ride them or get on their case, without really getting in their face. People have been nagging since well before the 12th century, when the word chide came along as a new way to say "complain" or "rail."
chide - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
2 meanings: 1. to rebuke or scold 2. to goad into action.... Click for more definitions.
Nov 13, 2017 · Definition of chide verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A complete guide to the word "CHIDE": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
Meaning & use. 1. intransitive. To give loud or impassioned utterance to anger, displeasure, disapprobation, reproof. 1.a. Old English–1693. † To contend with loud and angry altercation; to brawl, wrangle. Obsolete. OE. Gif men cidaþ. Ælfric, Exodus xxi. 18. OE. Altercaretur, cidde.
Verb. Filter. verb. chid, chidden, chided, chides, chiding. To scold; now, usually, to reprove mildly. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To express disapproval. American Heritage. To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily. Wiktionary. (intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. Wiktionary. Synonyms: have-words. chew-up. remonstrate.
CHIDE meaning: 1. to speak to someone severely because they have behaved badly: 2. to speak to someone severely…. Learn more.
