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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CASTIGATE, v.t. To chastise; to punish by stripes; to correct; to chasten; to check.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct]
2: inflict severe punishment on

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-gated; -gating) Etymology: Latin castigatus, past participle of castigare — more at chasten Date: 1606 to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism Synonyms: see punish • castigation noun • castigator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. rebuke or punish severely. Derivatives: castigation n. castigator n. castigatory adj. Etymology: L castigare reprove f. castus pure

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Castigate Cas"ti*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Castigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Castigating.] [L. castigatus, p. p. of castigare to correct, punish; castus pure, chaste + agere to move, drive. See Caste, and cf. Chasten.] 1. To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely. 2. To emend; to correct. [Obs.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(castigates, castigating, castigated) If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely. (FORMAL) Marx never lost an opportunity to castigate colonialism... She castigated him for having no intellectual interests. VERB: V n, V n for n/-ing • castigation ...Bradley's public castigation of the police chief.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Chastise, whip, beat, punish with stripes or the lash, lash, flog. 2. Discipline, correct, punish, chasten. 3. Upbraid, flagellate, fall foul of, dress down, take to task, haul over the coals, censure bitterly, criticise severely, trim out, call to account.

Moby Thesaurus

assail, attack, baste, beat, belabor, berate, blister, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, carpet, chasten, chastise, chew out, correct, criticize, deal with, discipline, dress down, drub, excoriate, flay, fustigate, inflict upon, keelhaul, lash, masthead, penalize, pillory, pummel, punish, rail, rate, rebuke, reprimand, roast, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, settle with, skin alive, slash, square accounts, take to task, tell off, thrash, tick off, tongue-lash, trounce, upbraid, visit upon, wig