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Definition of Chastise
1. Verb. Censure severely. "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
Specialized synonyms: Flame
Generic synonyms: Bawl Out, Berate, Call Down, Call On The Carpet, Chew Out, Chew Up, Chide, Dress Down, Have Words, Jaw, Lambast, Lambaste, Lecture, Rag, Rebuke, Remonstrate, Reprimand, Reproof, Scold, Take To Task, Trounce
Derivative terms: Castigation, Castigation, Chastisement, Chastisement, Corrective, Objurgation
Definition of Chastise
1. v. t. To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
Definition of Chastise
1. Verb. To punish or scold someone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chastise
1. to discipline by punishment [v -TISED, -TISING, -TISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastise
Literary usage of Chastise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kit Carson's Life and Adventures: From Facts Narrated by Himself : Embracing by De Witt Clinton Peters (1873)
"The News of the Defeat of Mr. Young's Trapping Party by the Indians reaches
Taos—Young raises a Party to chastise the Indians—Kit Carson becomes a ..."
2. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"Same subject—Right to chastise.—It seems that both parents, father and mother,
have the right to chastise their children moderately. This right to chastise, ..."
3. The Law of the Public School System of the United States by Harvey Cortlandt Voorhees (1916)
"A teacher may, for proper cause, reasonably and moderately chastise a pupil,6
especially for conduct tending to demoralize other pupils and to interfere ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The successor of Cyrus and Artaxerxes was the only rival whom he deemed worthy
of his arms, and he resolved, by the final conquest of Persia, to chastise ..."
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