Among some who have read Blackstone and more who have not an opinion prevails that a husband may chastise his wife provided the weapon be not thicker than his little finger.
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Chastise
//ˈt͡ʃæstaɪz//
Synonyms for "chastise" (123 found)
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4 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesmanner of
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3 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- би́я verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- нака́звам verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 训斥 verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Czech
4 entries- dát co proto verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- potrestat verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- trestat verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- vynadat verb (to severely scold or censure)
Danish
1 entries- tugte verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Finnish
4 entries- haukkua verb (to severely scold or censure)
- kurittaa verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- nuhdella verb (to severely scold or censure)
- ojentaa verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
French
1 entries- châtier verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Galician
2 entries- castigar verb (to severely scold or censure)
- reprender verb (to severely scold or censure)
German
1 entries- züchtigen verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Hungarian
4 entries- büntet verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- fenyít verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- legorombít verb (to severely scold or censure)
- lehord verb (to severely scold or censure)
Irish
1 entries- ceartaigh verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Italian
1 entries- castigare verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Portuguese
1 entries- castigar verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Russian
1 entries- нака́зывать verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kȁzniti verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- ка̏знити verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Spanish
4 entries- castigar verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- escarmentar verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- regañar verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- regañar verb (to severely scold or censure)
Swedish
3 entries- näpsa verb (to severely scold or censure)
- skälla ut verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
- tukta verb (to punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
You chastise people for working hard.
Source: tatoeba (4980260)
Do not chastise your father.
Source: tatoeba (8013651)
Don't chastise your father.
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