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Chiding
//ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Reproachful; critical.
"it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife."
Noun
- 1 A scolding.
"The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]"
- 2 rebuking a person harshly wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of chide form-of, gerund, participle, present
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