If you berate me like that again, I will quit.
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Berate
//bɪˈɹeɪt//
Synonyms for "berate" (103 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- سَبَّ verb (chide vehemently)
- شَاتَمَ verb (chide vehemently)
- شَتَمَ verb (chide vehemently)
- لَحَا verb (chide vehemently)
Bulgarian
1 entries- руга́я verb (chide vehemently)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 痛罵 /痛骂 verb (chide vehemently)
Czech
4 entries- hubovat verb (chide vehemently)
- spílat verb (chide vehemently)
- vyhubovat verb (chide vehemently)
- vynadat verb (chide vehemently)
Danish
1 entries- overfuse verb (chide vehemently)
Finnish
3 entries- läksyttää verb (chide vehemently)
- nuhdella verb (chide vehemently)
- sättiä verb (chide vehemently)
French
4 entries- admonester verb (chide vehemently)
- blâmer verb (chide vehemently)
- critiquer verb (chide vehemently)
- fustiger verb (chide vehemently)
German
4 entries- ausschelten verb (chide vehemently)
- ausschimpfen verb (chide vehemently)
- beschimpfen verb (chide vehemently)
- schelten verb (chide vehemently)
Hungarian
4 entries- korhol verb (chide vehemently)
- lehord verb (chide vehemently)
- megszid verb (chide vehemently)
- szid verb (chide vehemently)
Italian
4 entries- ammonire verb (chide vehemently)
- redarguire verb (chide vehemently)
- richiamare verb (chide vehemently)
- rimproverare verb (chide vehemently)
Japanese
4 entries- しかる verb (chide vehemently)
- ガミガミ叱る verb (chide vehemently)
- 痛罵する verb (chide vehemently)
- 難詰する verb (chide vehemently)
Latgalian
4 entries- braneit verb (chide vehemently)
- lomuot verb (chide vehemently)
- luodēt verb (chide vehemently)
- luot verb (chide vehemently)
Latvian
2 entries- bārt verb (chide vehemently)
- lamāt verb (chide vehemently)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- rakke ned på verb (chide vehemently)
- skjelle ut verb (chide vehemently)
Portuguese
2 entries- admoestar verb (chide vehemently)
- repreender verb (chide vehemently)
Quechua
1 entries- anyay verb (chide vehemently)
Romanian
4 entries- admonesta verb (chide vehemently)
- admonestare verb (chide vehemently)
- certare verb (chide vehemently)
- ocărî verb (chide vehemently)
Russian
3 entries- брани́ть verb (chide vehemently)
- поноси́ть verb (chide vehemently)
- руга́ть verb (chide vehemently)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- izgrditi verb (chide vehemently)
- ukoriti verb (chide vehemently)
Spanish
4 entries- amonestar verb (chide vehemently)
- reprehender verb (chide vehemently)
- reprender verb (chide vehemently)
- reñir verb (chide vehemently)
Turkish
4 entries- azarlamak verb (chide vehemently)
- fırça atmak verb (chide vehemently)
- haşlamak verb (chide vehemently)
- paylamak verb (chide vehemently)
Ukrainian
3 entries- гани́ти verb (chide vehemently)
- ла́яти verb (chide vehemently)
- свари́ти verb (chide vehemently)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Ziri began to berate Rima with questions.
Source: tatoeba (11209677)
It's not in his style to berate human beings so bitterly. But it's understandable: it's hard to bear so much blindness, so much shamelessness.
Source: tatoeba (13497442)
What society tells people that they can “do whatever they want” to dissidents, and yet berates anyone for treating them well?
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