rebuke n 1: an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face" [syn: rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand] 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]

rebuke I. transitive verb (rebuked; rebuking) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French rebucher, rebouker to blunt, check, reprimand Date: 14th century 1. a. to criticize sharply ; reprimand b. to serve as a rebuke to 2. to turn back or keep down ; check Synonyms: see reprove • rebuker noun II. noun Date: 15th century an expression of strong disapproval ; reprimand

rebuke
v. & n.
--v.tr. reprove sharply; subject to protest or censure.
--n.
1 the act of rebuking.
2 the process of being rebuked.
3 a reproof.
Derivatives:
rebuker n. rebukingly adv.
Etymology: ME f. AF & ONF rebuker (as RE-, OF buchier beat, orig. cut down wood f. busche log)

rebuke (rebukes, rebuking, rebuked) If you rebuke someone, you speak severely to them because they have said or done something that you do not approve of. (FORMAL) The president rebuked the House and Senate for not passing those bills within 100 days. = reprimand VERB: V n • Rebuke is also a noun. UN member countries delivered a strong rebuke to both countries for persisting with nuclear testing programs... = reprimand N-VAR: usu with supp

Rebuke Forbear sharp speeches to her; She's a lady So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, And strokes death to her. SHAKESPEARE: Cymbeline, Act iii., Sc. 5.

Rebuke \Re*buke"\, n. 1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. --Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes and answer not? --Shak. 2. Check; rebuff. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.

Rebuke \Re*buke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rebuked; p. pr. & vb. n. Rebuking.] [OF. rebouquier to dull, blunt, F. reboucher; perhaps fr. pref. re- re- + bouche mouth, OF. also bouque, L. bucca cheek; if so, the original sense was, to stop the mouth of; hence, to stop, obstruct.] To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared. --Dryden. Syn: To reprove; chide; check; chasten; restrain; silence. See Reprove.

REBUKE re-buk': As a verb "rebuke" is in the Old Testament the translation of ga`ar and yakhach; another word, ribh, in Ne 5:7, is in the Revised Version (British and American) translated "contended with." "Rebuke" (noun) is most frequently the translation of ge`arah; also in the King James Version of cherpah (Isa 25:8; Jer 15:15, the Revised Version (British and American) "reproach"), and of a few other words signifying reproach, etc. "Rebuker" (mucar, literally, "correction," "chastisement") in Ho 5:2 has the Revised Version margin "Hebrew `rebuke.'" In the New Testament "to rebuke" is most often the translation of epitimao (Mt 8:26; 16:22; 17:18, etc.); also in the King James Version of elegcho, always in the Revised Version (British and American) rendered "reprove" (1Ti 5:20; Tit 1:13; 2:15; Heb 12:5; Re 3:19). Another word is epipletto (once, 1Ti 5:1); "without rebuke" in Php 2:15 is in the Revised Version (British and American) "without blemish." On the other hand, the Revised Version (British and American) has "rebuke" for several words in the King James Version, as for "reprove" (2Ki 19:4; Isa 37:4), "reproof" (Job 26:11; Pr 17:10), "charged" (Mr 10:48). In Isa 2:4; Mic 4:3, the English Revised Version has "reprove" for "rebuke," and in the margin "decide concerning," which is text in the American Standard Revised Version. In Ecclesiasticus 11:7 we have the wise counsel: "Understand first, and then rebuke" (epitimao). W. L. Walker

rebuke I. v. a. Censure, reprove, reprehend, reprimand, chide, admonish, blame, upbraid, lecture, scold, scold at, find fault with, remonstrate with, silence. II. n. 1. Censure, reprimand, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, chiding, reproval, reprehension, blame, reproach. 2. Chastisement, punishment, affliction.

rebuke rɪˈbju:k v. 1 scold, reproach, admonish, reprove, reprimand, lecture, censure, chide, reprehend, berate, castigate, criticize, take to task, upbraid, revile, Colloq dress down, bawl out, give (someone) a piece of one's mind, haul (someone) over the coals, let (someone) have it, give (someone) hell or what for, tell (someone) off, tell (someone) where to get off, Brit carpet, tear (someone) off a strip, tick (someone) off, wig, blow (someone) up, give (someone) a wigging, US and Canadian rake (someone) over the coals, give (someone) the business, chew out: The headmaster severely rebuked those boys who had violated the school curfew. --n. 2 scolding, reproach, admonition, reproof, reprimand, lecture, censure, chiding, reprehension, berating, castigation, criticism, upbraiding, revilement, tongue-lashing, Colloq dressing-down, what for, Brit wigging, blow-up or blowing up, Slang hell: Rawlings was let off with nothing more than a rebuke.

63 Moby Thesaurus words for "rebuke": admonish, admonishment, admonition, bawl out, berate, berating, blowing up, bring to book, call down, call to account, carpet, castigate, castigation, censure, chastise, chastisement, chew out, chide, chiding, correct, correction, criticism, criticize, dress down, dressing down, dressing-down, earful, have words with, hell, lecture, lesson, objurgate, objurgation, rap, rate, rating, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, reprove, revile, revilement, scold, scolding, sermon, set down, set straight, spank, spanking, straighten out, take down, take to task, talking-to, tick, tongue-lashing, upbraid, upbraiding, what for, wig

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