CASTIGATE DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
castigate v 1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct] 2: inflict severe punishment on castigate 1607, from L. castigatus pp. of castigare "to purify, chastise," from castus "pure" (see caste) + agere "to do." Sense of "make someone pure by correcting or reproving him." "If thou didst put this soure cold habit on To castigate thy pride, 'twere well." [Shakespeare, "Timon" IV.iii (1607)] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) castigate 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 English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary castigate (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. N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary castigate ˈkæstɪɡeɪt v.tr. rebuke or punish severely. øøcastigation n. castigator n. castigatory adj. [L castigare reprove f. castus pure] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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.] Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms castigate 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. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) castigate ˈkæstɪɡeɪt v. chastise, punish, correct, penalize, discipline, rebuke, reprimand, read (someone) the riot act, keelhaul, chasten, criticize, Colloq tell off, dress down, Chiefly Brit tick off, Brit carpet, haul over the coals, US and Canadian chew out, rake over the coals, put or call on or on to the carpet: They were castigated in the press for their extravagant lifestyle. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 53 Moby Thesaurus words for "castigate": 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 |
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