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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BERA'TE, v.t. [be and rate.] To chide vehemently; to scold.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1548 to scold or condemn vehemently and at length Synonyms: see scold

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. scold, rebuke. Etymology: BE- + RATE(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Berate Be*rate", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Berated; p. pr. & vb. n. Berating.] To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. --Holland. --Motley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(berates, berating, berated) If you berate someone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong. (FORMAL) Marion berated Joe for the noise he made. = chide, rebuke VERB: V n for n, also V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Scold, chide, reprimand, rate. 2. Abuse, vilify, defame, betongue, rail at. See asperse.

Moby Thesaurus

abuse, bark at, bawl out, betongue, blacken, castigate, chew out, chide, excoriate, execrate, fulminate against, harangue, jaw, load with reproaches, objurgate, rag, rail, rail at, rate, rave against, revile, scold, thunder against, tongue-lash, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, yell at, yelp at