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[1] |
make/deliver/give a speech/address/talk
,
discourse
,
sermonize
,
hold forth
,
moralize
,
pontificate
,
orate
,
preach
,
declaim
,
expound
,
go on about
,
harangue
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[2] |
reprove
,
talk
,
reprimand
,
rebuke
,
reproach
,
scold
,
upbraid
,
berate
,
chide
,
tongue-lash
,
remonstrate with
,
rail at
,
fulminate against
,
admonish
,
warn
,
(Colloq) dress down
,
tell off
,
send (someone) away/off with a flea in his/her ear
,
(Slang) (Brit) wig
,
(US/Canadian) chew out
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[3] |
call on the carpet
,
take to task
,
rebuke
,
rag
,
trounce
,
reproof
,
reprimand
,
jaw
,
dress down
,
call down
,
scold
,
chide
,
berate
,
bawl out
,
remonstrate
,
chew out
,
chew up
,
have words
,
lambaste
,
lambast
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