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[1] |
scold
,
censure
,
chide
,
criminate
,
reprove
,
rebuke
,
admonish
,
upbraid
,
castigate
,
reproach
,
berate
,
lecture
,
censure
,
criticize
,
find fault with
,
attack
,
flay (alive)
,
reprehend
,
read (someone) the riot act
,
slap on the wrist
,
rap over the knuckles
,
take to task
,
(Colloq) bawl out
,
dress down
,
give a dressing-down
,
tell off
,
tick off
,
haul over the coals
,
give (someone) a piece of (one's) mind
,
(Brit) slate
,
give (someone) a row
,
send (someone) away/off with a flea in his/her ear
,
tell (someone) a thing/two
,
carpet
,
wig
,
skin (alive)
,
(US/Canadian) chew out
,
rake over the coals
,
call on the carpet
,
pin (someone's) ears back
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[2] |
call on the carpet
,
take to task
,
rebuke
,
rag
,
trounce
,
reproof
,
lecture
,
jaw
,
dress down
,
call down
,
scold
,
chide
,
berate
,
bawl out
,
remonstrate
,
chew out
,
chew up
,
have words
,
lambaste
,
lambast
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