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Chide

// t͡ʃaɪd// verb

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Verb

1
To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily. transitive
"Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow."
2
censure severely or angrily wordnet
3
To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. intransitive, obsolete
"And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?"
4
To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. ambitransitive
"Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?"

Etymology

From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German kīdal (“wedge”).

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