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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHIDE, v.t.
1. To scold at; to reprove; to utter words in anger, or by way of disapprobation; to rebuke; as, to chide one for his faults.
2. To blame; to reproach; as, to chide folly or negligence.
To chide from or chide away, is to drive away by scolding or reproof.
CHIDE, v.i.
1. To scold; to clamor; to find fault; to contend in words of anger; sometimes followed by with.
The people did chide with Moses. Exodus 17.
2. To quarrel.
3. To make a rough, clamorous, roaring noise; as the chiding flood.
CHIDE, n. Murmur; gentle noise.

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

verb (chid or chided; chid or chidden or chided; chiding) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English c?dan to quarrel, chide, from c?d strife Date: before 12th century intransitive verb to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke transitive verb to voice disapproval to ; reproach in a usually mild and constructive manner ; scold Synonyms: see reprove

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. (past chided or chid; past part. chided or chidden) archaic or literary scold, rebuke. Derivatives: chider n. chidingly adv. Etymology: OE cidan, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chide Chide (ch[imac]d), v. t. [imp. Chid (ch[i^]d), or Chode (ch[imac]d Obs.); p. p. Chidden, Chid; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiding.] [AS. c[=i]dan; of unknown origin.] 1. To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. --Shak. 2. Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against. The sea that chides the banks of England. --Shak. To chide hither, chide from, or chide away, to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof. Syn: To blame; rebuke; reprove; scold; censure; reproach; reprehend; reprimand.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chide Chide, v. i. 1. To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses. --Ex. xvii. 2. 2. To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. As doth a rock againts the chiding flood. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chide Chide, n. [AS. c[=i]d] A continuous noise or murmur. The chide of streams. --Thomson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(chides, chiding, chided) If you chide someone, you speak to them angrily because they have done something wicked or foolish. (OLD-FASHIONED) Cross chided himself for worrying... He gently chided the two women. = scold VERB: V n for/about -ing/n, V n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

chid: Only in the Old Testament, translating Hebrew ribh, a word which is more frequently rendered "strive." Since in Ge 31:36; Jud 8:1; Ps 103:9, the strife is one of words, it means in these passages, "scold," or "sharply censure," and is applied either to mutinous protests and reproaches of inferiors to a superior, or, as in the last of these passages, to rebukes administered by a superior to inferiors.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Rebuke, reprimand, censure, reprove, blame, upbraid, admonish, scold, scold at. II. v. n. Scold, clamor, fret, fume, chafe.

Moby Thesaurus

admonish, berate, bring to book, call down, call to account, chastise, correct, have words with, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, set down, set straight, spank, straighten out, take down, take to task, tick off, upbraid